![]() ![]() She grew up mostly in Chicago’s Hyde Park, a multicultural enclave of professionals, her father a pediatrician, her mother a socialite. … I call it Negroland because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.” Jefferson writes in a softer register than Rankine or Coates, opening with a confession: “Negroland is my name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. ![]() Now comes “Negroland,” a vibrant and damning memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Margo Jefferson, who dares to throw a wrench - class - into our tortured debates about race. ![]() Not surprisingly, African-American authors have responded with a bumper crop of offerings, Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” and Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between the World and Me” among them. From the shocking deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner to endless invective against President Obama, the past year has seen a surge in racial animus that rivals the explosive tensions of the civil rights era. ![]()
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