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Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. In these pages, Jefferson takes us into this insular and discerning society: ''I call it Negroland,'' she writes, ''because I still find ?Negro' a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.'' Negroland's pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs-a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and ''the masses of Negros,'' and where the motto was ''Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment.'' At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac,Ā NegrolandĀ is a landmark work on privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. In these pages, Jefferson takes us into this insular and discerning society: ''I call it Negroland,'' she writes, ''because I still find ?Negro' a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.'' Negroland's pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs-a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and ''the masses of Negros,'' and where the motto was ''Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment.'' At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac,Ā NegrolandĀ is a landmark work on privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America.
