Vintage

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award

Winner of the Heartland Prize

A New York Times Notable Book
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One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post?? Los Angeles Times?? Time?? Vanity Fair?? Marie Claire?? Time Out New York?? Minneapolis Star Tribune?? Kansas City Star?? Men??s Journal?? Oprah.com?


Pulitzer Prize?winning cultural critic 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. In these pages?? Jefferson takes us into this insular and discerning society: ??I call it Negroland???? she writes?? ??because I sti