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Privilege And Pressure: A Memoir Of Growing Up Black And Elite In 'Negroland'

In her memoir, Negroland, Margo Jefferson describes growing up black and affluent in 1950s Chicago. Jefferson tells Fresh Air it was a world of... Privilege And Pressure: A Memoir Of Growing Up Black ...
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'Negroland' Author / The Subtle Things that Win Baseball Games

Pulitzer Prize winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson calls the region she's from, 'Negroland.' She describes it as a 'small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount ...
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‘Negroland’ Offers Insight into the Troubles of the Black Elite

The book ‘Negroland’ explores the life of the Black aristocracy. Pulitzer Prize winning critic Margo Jefferson’s memoir “Negroland” opens the door into the exclusive world of the Black elite – a world ...
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Privilege And Pressure: A Memoir Of Growing Up Black And Elite In 'Negroland'

Growing up in the 1950s, Margo Jefferson was part of Chicago's black upper class. The daughter of a prominent doctor and his socialite wife, Jefferson inhabited a world of ambition, education and ...