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    "description": "<p><strong>Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award<br /><br />Winner of the Heartland Prize<br /><br />A <em>New York Times</em> Notable Book<br /> &nbsp;<br /> One of the Best Books of the Year: <em>The Washington Post</em>, <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, <em>Time</em>, <em>Vanity Fair</em>, <em>Marie Claire</em>, <em>Time Out New York</em>, <em>Minneapolis Star Tribune</em>, <em>Kansas City Star</em>, <em>Men&rsquo;s Journal</em>, <em>Oprah</em>.com&nbsp;</strong><br /><br />Pulitzer Prize&ndash;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: &ldquo;I call it Negroland,&rdquo; she writes, &ldquo;because I still find &lsquo;Negro&rsquo; a word of wonders, glorious and terrible.&rdquo; <br /><br /> Negroland&rsquo;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&mdash;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 &ldquo;the masses of Negros,&rdquo; and where the motto was &ldquo;Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment.&rdquo; At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, <em>Negroland</em> is a landmark work on privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America.</p>",
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