{"id":40347,"date":"2016-03-16T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=40347"},"modified":"2016-03-15T01:08:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T05:08:33","slug":"negroland-by-margo-jefferson-in-library-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/negroland-by-margo-jefferson-in-library-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Negroland by Margo Jefferson [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Negroland<\/a>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong>
\n“I was taught to avoid showing off,” Pulitzer Prize-winning<\/a> critic Margo Jefferson<\/a> (writing, Columbia University; On Michael Jackson<\/em>) begins. “But isn’t all memoir a form of showing off?” That hesitation permeates throughout, the restraint perfectly mimicked in Robin Miles’s elegant recitation.<\/p>\n

This work is a gorgeous examination \u2013 personally, socially, historically \u2013 of Jefferson’s name “for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty.” Jefferson uses her own experiences of maturation, accomplishment, and struggle to aim a pointed lens at a racial divide that still excludes more often than it includes, regardless of that privilege and plenty.<\/p>\n

At her most vulnerable, she reveals her suicidal depression, which she describes as “one white female privilege \u2026 that was glorified in the literature of white female suffering and resistance. A privilege Good Negro Girls had been denied by our history of duty, obligation, and discipline.”<\/p>\n

Verdict<\/strong>:\u00a0Jefferson’s closing words, “Go on\u2026,” are both personal maxim and rallying inducement for every reader. Fans of Ta-Nahesi Coates<\/a> and Roxane Gay<\/a> will want to add Jefferson to their listening oeuvre immediately.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Audio,” Library Journal<\/em>, March 15, 2016<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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