02891cam a2200361 4500 259619080 TxAuBib 20160403120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781504681506 1504681509 d794d176-b2a5-405f-b006-7efd59f89883 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9781982459918 2411934 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Jefferson, Margo, 1947- Negroland [Bridges Audiobook] : A Memoir. Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2015. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 220MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 220MB. At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac-here is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of Margo Jefferson's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned with distancing itself from whites and the black generality while tirelessly measuring itself against both.Born in upper-crust black Chicago-her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at the time the nation's oldest black hospital; her mother was a socialite-Margo Jefferson has spent most of her life among (call them what you will) the colored aristocracy, the colored elite, the blue-vein society. Since the nineteenth century, they have stood apart, these inhabitants of Negroland, "a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty."Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments-the civil-rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of postracial America-Margo Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions. Aware as it is of heartwrenching despair and depression, this book is a triumphant paean to the grace of perseverance. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2016-04-01 15:48:11. Miles, Robin. http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=d794d176-b2a5-405f-b006-7efd59f89883 http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/2411934-Negroland.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d794d176-b2a5-405f-b006-7efd59f89883&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) http://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0887-1/2411934-Negroland.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) http://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d794d176-b2a5-405f-b006-7efd59f89883&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)