A review by laila4343
Negroland by Margo Jefferson

3.0

I don't know what to think about this book. It is a decidedly nontraditional memoir. Jefferson uses different techniques (histories, lists, third person) to keep herself (and us) at a remove from the emotion of her experience as an upper middle class black girl growing up in the 1950s and 60s in Chicago. She shares observations and incidents that are certainly compelling and emotionally devastating. I have a feeling that this is going to be a book that I appreciate more the longer I think about it. But at times, unfortunately, reading it felt like a chore.

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