Negroland : a memoir
(Audiobook CD)
Author
Contributors
Miles, Robin, narrator.
Published
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2015].
ISBN
9781504681544, 1504681541, 9781504681568, 1504681568
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Status
Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor
CD BIOGRAPHY JEFFERSON MARGO
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Indian Prairie Public Library District - 1st Floor | CD BIOGRAPHY JEFFERSON MARGO | On Shelf |
Location | Call Number | Status |
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Eisenhower Public Library District - Stacks | CD 305.896 JEF 7 CDS | On Shelf |
Evergreen Park Public Library - Stacks | CD B JEFFERSON | On Shelf |
Grande Prairie Public Library District - Stacks | BO-CD 921 JEFFERSON | On Shelf |
Tinley Park Public Library - 1st Floor | AUDIOBOOK 305.896 JEFFERSON, MARGO | On Shelf |
Subjects
LC Subjects
African American girls -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Anecdotes.
Audiobooks.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
Sound recordings.
African American women -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography.
African Americans -- Illinois -- Chicago Region -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Race identity.
Anecdotes.
Audiobooks.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Biography.
Chicago Region (Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
Elite (Social sciences) -- Illinois -- Chicago.
Jefferson family.
Jefferson, Margo, -- 1947- -- Childhood and youth.
Sound recordings.
More Details
Published
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2015].
Format
Audiobook CD
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (8 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
ISBN
9781504681544, 1504681541, 9781504681568, 1504681568
UPC
9781504681568
Notes
General Note
Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Robin Miles.
Description
At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, this is a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture seen 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, where her father was head of pediatrics at Provident (at the time the nation's oldest Black hospital) and her mother 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.
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AUDIOBOOK CD
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Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Jefferson, M., & Miles, R. (2015). Negroland: a memoir (Unabridged.). Blackstone Audio, Inc..
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo, 1947- and Robin, Miles. 2015. Negroland: A Memoir. Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo, 1947- and Robin, Miles. Negroland: A Memoir Blackstone Audio, Inc, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Jefferson, Margo, and Robin Miles. Negroland: A Memoir Unabridged., Blackstone Audio, Inc., 2015.
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