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Negroland

Author : Margo Jefferson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101870648
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Negroland written by Margo Jefferson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic Jefferson takes us into an insular and discerning society: “I call it Negroland,” she writes, “because I still find ‘Negro’ a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.” Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics at Provident Hospital, while her mother was a socialite. Negroland’s pedigree dates back generations, having originated with antebellum free blacks who made their fortunes among the plantations of the South. It evolved into a world of exclusive sororities, fraternities, networks, and clubs—a world in which skin color and hair texture were relentlessly evaluated alongside scholarly and professional achievements, where the Talented Tenth positioned themselves as a third race between whites and “the masses of Negros,” and where the motto was “Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment.” Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions, while reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments—the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the falsehood of post-racial America.

Negroland

Author : Margo Jefferson
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307378454
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Negroland written by Margo Jefferson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2015 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anti-racism collection has been created by Lethbridge Public Library and the City of Lethbridge Diversity and Inclusion Working Group to provide resources about anti-racism education, history, and perspective. Anti-racism is defined by the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre as the active process of identifying and eliminating racism by changing systems, organizational structures, policies, practices and attitudes, so that power is redistributed and shared equitably.

Negroland

Author : Margo Jefferson
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783783036
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Negroland written by Margo Jefferson and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation. Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments - the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of post-racial America - Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions.

Constructing a Nervous System

Author : Margo Jefferson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524748188
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Constructing a Nervous System written by Margo Jefferson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • From "one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism" (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir "as electric as the title suggests" (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom). A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Oprah Daily, The New Yorker, Washington Post, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Publishers Weekly The Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others—her parents and maternal grandmother, jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill and trouble her, and who have made up her sense of self as a person and as a writer. In her much-anticipated follow-up to Negroland, Jefferson brings these figures to life in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the elements that comprise and occupy the mind of one of our foremost critics. In Constructing a Nervous System, Jefferson shatters her self into pieces and recombines them into a new and vital apparatus on the page, fusing the criticism that she is known for, fragments of the family members she grieves for, and signal moments from her life, as well as the words of those who have peopled her past and accompanied her in her solitude, dramatized here like never before. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner are among the author’s alter egos. The sounds of a jazz LP emerge as the intimate and instructive sounds of a parent’s voice. W. E. B. Du Bois and George Eliot meet illicitly. The muscles and movements of a ballerina are spliced with those of an Olympic runner, becoming a template for what a black female body can be. The result is a wildly innovative work of depth and stirring beauty. It is defined by fractures and dissonance, longing and ecstasy, and a persistent searching. Jefferson interrogates her own self as well as the act of writing memoir, and probes the fissures at the center of American cultural life.

On Michael Jackson

Author : Margo Jefferson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307277658
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book On Michael Jackson written by Margo Jefferson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned Pulitzer Prize–winning cultural critic brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time in this passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis. Who is Michael Jackson and what does it mean to call him a “What Is It”? What do P. T. Barnum, Peter Pan, and Edgar Allan Poe have to do with our fascination with Jackson? How did his curious Victorian upbringing and his tenure as a child prodigy on the “chitlin’ circuit” inform his character and multiplicity of selves? How is Michael Jackson’s celebrity related to the outrageous popularity of nineteenth-century minstrelsy? What is the perverse appeal of child stars for grown-ups and what is the price of such stardom for these children and for us? What uncanniness provoked Michael Jackson to become “Alone of All His Race, Alone of All Her Sex,” while establishing himself as an undeniably great performer with neo-Gothic, dandy proclivities and a producer of visionary music videos? What do we find so unnerving about Michael Jackson’s presumed monstrosity? In short, how are we all of us implicated? In this stunning book, Margo Jefferson gives us the incontrovertible lowdown on call-him-what-you-wish; she offers a powerful reckoning with a quintessential, richly allusive signifier of American society and popular culture.

The Negroland of the Arabs Examined and Explained; Or, An Inquiry Into the Early History and Geography of Central Africa

Author : William Desborough Cooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negroland of the Arabs Examined and Explained; Or, An Inquiry Into the Early History and Geography of Central Africa written by William Desborough Cooley and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Negroes in Negroland; the Negroes in America; and Negroes Generally

Author : Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781718861305
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book The Negroes in Negroland; the Negroes in America; and Negroes Generally written by Hinton Rowan Helper and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The negroes in negroland; the negroes in America; and negroes generally. Also, the several races of white men, considered as the involuntary and predestined supplanters of the black races.

The Negroes in Negroland; the Negroes in America; and Negroes Generally. Also, the Several Races of White Men, Considered as the Involuntary and Prede

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Author : Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015406582
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book The Negroes in Negroland; the Negroes in America; and Negroes Generally. Also, the Several Races of White Men, Considered as the Involuntary and Prede written by Hinton Rowan Helper and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Black Deutschland

Author : Darryl Pinckney
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374113815
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Black Deutschland written by Darryl Pinckney and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intoxicating, provocative novel of appetite, identity, and self-construction, Darryl Pinckney's Black Deutschland tells the story of an outsider, trapped between a painful past and a tenebrous future, in Europe's brightest and darkest city. Jed—young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago—flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created, the subsidized city isolated behind the Berlin Wall, is where he's chosen to become the figure that he so admires, the black American expatriate. Newly sober and nostalgic for the Weimar days of Isherwood and Auden, Jed arrives to chase boys and to escape from what it means to be a black male in America. But history, both personal and political, can't be avoided with time or distance. Whether it's the judgment of the cousin he grew up with and her husband's bourgeois German family, the lure of white wine in a down-and-out bar, a gang of racists looking for a brawl, or the ravaged visage of Rock Hudson flashing behind the face of every white boy he desperately longs for, the past never stays past even in faraway Berlin. In the age of Reagan and AIDS in a city on the verge of tearing down its walls, he clambers toward some semblance of adulthood amid the outcasts and expats, intellectuals and artists, queers and misfits. And, on occasion, the city keeps its Isherwood promises and the boy he kisses, incredibly, kisses him back.

The Negroes in Negroland

Author : Hinton Rowan Helper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Negroes in Negroland written by Hinton Rowan Helper and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

Author : Morgan Parker
Publisher : Tin House Books
ISBN 13 : 1941040543
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce written by Morgan Parker and published by Tin House Books. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A TIME Magazine Best Paperback of 2017 A Publishers Weekly Best Poetry Collection of Spring A Paris Review Staff Pick A Most Anticipated Book of 2017 at NPR.org, BuzzFeed, VICE, NYLON, and more "This is a marvelous book. See for yourself. Morgan Parker is a fearlessly forward and forward-thinking literary star." —Terrance Hayes The only thing more beautiful than Beyoncé is God, and God is a black woman sipping rosé and drawing a lavender bath, texting her mom, belly-laughing in the therapist’s office, feeling unloved, being on display, daring to survive. Morgan Parker stands at the intersections of vulnerability and performance, of desire and disgust, of tragedy and excellence. Unrelentingly feminist, tender, ruthless, and sequined, these poems are an altar to the complexities of black American womanhood in an age of non-indictments and deja vu, and a time of wars over bodies and power. These poems celebrate and mourn. They are a chorus chanting: You’re gonna give us the love we need.

The Negroland of the Arabs Examined and Explained (1841)

Author : William Desborough Cooley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136975616
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book The Negroland of the Arabs Examined and Explained (1841) written by William Desborough Cooley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially published in 1841 and written in language of the time, this is W.D Cooley's investigation which has formed a basis for future studies. His spirit for inquiry led him into the diverse fields of geography, mathematics, and linguistics and here is his inquiry into the Early History and Geography of Central Africa.

Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker

Author : Thomas Vinciguerra
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248747
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E. B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of The New Yorker written by Thomas Vinciguerra and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Exuberant . . . elegantly conjures an evocative group dynamic.” —Sam Roberts, New York Times From its birth in 1925 to the early days of the Cold War, The New Yorker slowly but surely took hold as the country’s most prestigious, entertaining, and informative general-interest periodical. In Cast of Characters, Thomas Vinciguerra paints a portrait of the magazine’s cadre of charming, wisecracking, driven, troubled, brilliant writers and editors. He introduces us to Wolcott Gibbs, theater critic, all-around wit, and author of an infamous 1936 parody of Time magazine. We meet the demanding and eccentric founding editor Harold Ross, who would routinely tell his underlings, "I'm firing you because you are not a genius," and who once mailed a pair of his underwear to Walter Winchell, who had accused him of preferring to go bare-bottomed under his slacks. Joining the cast are the mercurial, blind James Thurber, a brilliant cartoonist and wildly inventive fabulist, and the enigmatic E. B. White—an incomparable prose stylist and Ross's favorite son—who married The New Yorker's formidable fiction editor, Katharine Angell. Then there is the dashing St. Clair McKelway, who was married five times and claimed to have no fewer than twelve personalities, but was nonetheless a superb reporter and managing editor alike. Many of these characters became legends in their own right, but Vinciguerra also shows how, as a group, The New Yorker’s inner circle brought forth a profound transformation in how life was perceived, interpreted, written about, and published in America. Cast of Characters may be the most revealing—and entertaining—book yet about the unique personalities who built what Ross called not a magazine but a "movement."

Black is the Body

Author : Emily Bernard
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0451493028
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Black is the Body written by Emily Bernard and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2019 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of essays on race"--Provided by publisher.

Black Bourgeoisie

Author : Franklin Frazier
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684832410
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Black Bourgeoisie written by Franklin Frazier and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-02-13 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press, [1957].

Black Land

Author : Nadia Nurhussein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691234620
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Black Land written by Nadia Nurhussein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore how African American writing and art engaged with visions of Ethiopia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries As the only African nation, with the exception of Liberia, to remain independent during the colonization of the continent, Ethiopia has long held significance for and captivated the imaginations of African Americans. In Black Land, Nadia Nurhussein delves into nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American artistic and journalistic depictions of Ethiopia, illuminating the increasing tensions and ironies behind cultural celebrations of an African country asserting itself as an imperial power. Nurhussein navigates texts by Walt Whitman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Pauline Hopkins, Harry Dean, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, George Schuyler, and others, alongside images and performances that show the intersection of African America with Ethiopia during historic political shifts. From a description of a notorious 1920 Star Order of Ethiopia flag-burning demonstration in Chicago to a discussion of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie as Time magazine’s Man of the Year for 1935, Nurhussein illuminates the growing complications that modern Ethiopia posed for American writers and activists. American media coverage of the African nation exposed a clear contrast between the Pan-African ideal and the modern reality of Ethiopia as an antidemocratic imperialist state: Did Ethiopia represent the black nation of the future, or one of an inert and static past? Revising current understandings of black transnationalism, Black Land presents a well-rounded exploration of an era when Ethiopia’s presence in African American culture was at its height.

The Negroland Revisited

Author : Pekka Masonen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Negroland Revisited written by Pekka Masonen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: