Title :	Negroland : A memoir
Material Type:	printed text
Authors:	Margo Jefferson, Author
Publisher:	Vintage Books
Publication Date:	2015
ISBN (or other code):	978-0-307-47343-1
Languages :	English (eng)
Descriptors:	Biography Biography and personal stories Black/Anti-Black Race/Anti-Racism
Keywords:	slavery
Abstract:	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, Negroland is a landmark work on privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America.”

Negroland : A memoir [printed text] / Margo Jefferson, Author . - [S.l.] : Vintage Books, 2015.
ISBN : 978-0-307-47343-1
Languages : English (eng)

Descriptors:	Biography Biography and personal stories Black/Anti-Black Race/Anti-Racism
Keywords:	slavery
Abstract:	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, Negroland is a landmark work on privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America.”