Summary
"At once incendiary and icy, mischievous, and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, and American culture through the prism of the author's rarefied upbringing and education among a black elite concerned to distance itself from whites and the black generality, w... Full description
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Main Language
English
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English
Edition
First edition.
Subjects
Jefferson, Margo, > 1947- > Childhood and youth.
African American women > Illinois > Chicago > Biography.
African Americans > Race identity.
Elite (Social sciences) > Illinois > Chicago.
African Americans > Illinois > Chicago > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Chicago (Ill.) > Race relations > History > 20th century > Anecdotes.