@book {jefferson_negroland_2016,
	title = {Negroland: A Memoir},
	year = {2016},
	publisher = {Vintage Books},
	organization = {Vintage Books},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {"Pulitzer Prize{\textendash}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: "I call it Negroland," she writes, "because I still find {\textquoteright}Negro{\textquoteright} a word of wonders, glorious and terrible." Negroland{\textquoteright}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--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 "the masses of Negros," and where the motto was "Achievement. Invulnerability. Comportment." At once incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac, Negroland is a landmark work on privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America."},
	isbn = {978-0-307-47343-1},
	url = {http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/99153817181903941/catalog},
	author = {Jefferson, Margo}
}
