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Country
  
United States

Genre
  
Memoir, non-fiction

Originally published
  
2015

Publisher
  
Pantheon Books

3.6/5
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Language
  
English

Pages
  
248 pp

Author
  
Margo Jefferson

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Awards
  
National Book Critics Circle Award for Memoir/Autobiography

Social group books
  
Black bourgeoisie, Our Kind of People, My Life on the Road, The Fire This Time, Evicted

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Negroland: A Memoir is a 2015 book by Margo Jefferson.

Contents

Negroland a memoir by margo jefferson


Overview

A memoir of writer Margo Jefferson growing up in 1950s and 1960s America within a small, privileged segment of black American society known as the black bourgeoisie, cf African-American upper class.

Awards and honors

  • 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography), winner.
  • June 2016, chosen as a Book of the Week by BBC Radio 4.
  • Context

    Other books which discuss similar issues include E. Franklin Frazier's sociological Black Bourgeoisie (first edition in English in 1957 translated from the 1955 French original) and Lawrence Otis Graham’s 2000 book, Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class.

    References

    Negroland: A Memoir Wikipedia


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