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Beverly
Apr 05, 2015 rated it really liked it
This was a 4.5 read for me.

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We have been told to be aware of the “one story”, and Ms. Jefferson’s unflinchingly frank memoir of the black elite is a well-needed puzzle piece to add to the complexities of the race discussion. Ms. Jefferson, whose work as a cultural critic has garnered her recognition and prizes, turns the lens towards herself as she looks over the privileges, the constraints, the changes of her life with affection, openness, and analysis. To set the tone of the book, t
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Nadine in NY Jones
I’m a chronicler of Negroland, a participant-observer, an elegist, dissenter and admirer; sometime expatriate, ongoing interlocutor.

I call it Negroland because I still find “Negro” a word of wonders, glorious and terrible. A word for runaway slave posters and civil rights proclamations; for social constructs and street corner flaunts. A tonal-language word whose meaning shifts as setting and context shift, as history twists, lurches, advances, and stagnates.


Oy! I'm allergic to the word "int
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Rebekah
Attempts to address important issues regarding the intersection of race, class, and gender, but is ultimately such a boring writing style.
Shannon Wallner
Aug 17, 2015 marked it as to-read
Cheryl
Aug 27, 2015 marked it as started-may-finish
Sam
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Vicky
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Lorri
Aug 11, 2016 rated it liked it
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Nikki Morse
Jan 05, 2018 marked it as to-read
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Jackie
Jun 30, 2018 is currently reading it  ·  review of another edition
Meghan
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EmJay
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Kara
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