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Negroland : A Memoir
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Overview
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."
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780307473431
- ISBN-10: 0307473430
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: August 2016
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.25 x 0.63 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 272
