 First edition | |
| Author | Margo Jefferson |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir |
| Published | 2015 |
| Publisher | Pantheon Books [1] |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 248 [1] |
Negroland: A Memoir is a 2015 book by Margo Jefferson. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] It is a memoir of growing up in 1950s and 1960s America within a small, privileged segment of black American society known as the black bourgeoisie, or African-American upper class.
Negroland: A Memoir was published to acclaim in 2015. It was described by Dwight Garner in The New York Times as a "powerful and complicated memoir", [6] and by Margaret Busby in The Sunday Times as "utterly compelling", [7] while Anita Sethi wrote in The Observer : "Jefferson fascinatingly explores how her personal experience intersected with politics, from the civil rights movement to feminism, as well as history before her birth." [8] Tracy K. Smith wrote in The New York Times: "The visible narrative apparatus of 'Negroland' highlights its author's extreme vulnerability in the face of her material. It also makes apparent the all-too-often invisible fallout of our nation's ongoing obsession with race and class: Namely, that living a life as an exemplar of black excellence — and living with the survivor's guilt that often accompanies such excellence — can have a psychic effect nearly as deadening and dehumanizing as that of racial injustice itself." [9]
In 2016, Negroland was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction [10] [11] and won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Autobiography category.
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