5/24/2023 0 Comments Negroland book summary![]() In Negroland-what Jefferson terms “a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty”-lived the best of Afro-America: doctors, lawyers, entrepreneurs, teachers, and all-around strivers of the Third Race, the black aristocracy. ![]() Pulitzer-winning writer and cultural critic Margo Jefferson’s new memoir, Negroland, maps this very terrain, one on which money, privilege, and racism intersect in sometimes insidious ways. ![]() ![]() Upon the publication of Lawrence Otis Graham’s Our Kind of People in 1999, the New York Times asked, “ Is There a Black Upper Class?” On the surface, it was a foolhardy question-of course there was, and is, a black upper class-but if you were to peel back its exterior, as Graham did in his book, underneath revealed a world of race leaders: men and women and children who were in a constant “state of self-enhancement.” Here was a place, a land, very few Americans knew about. ![]()
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