{"product_id":"books-negroland-by-margo-jefferson","title":"Negroland","description":"'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times  'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchword' Colin Grant, Guardian   The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. With privilege came expectation.   Reckoning with the limits and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments - the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of post-racial America - Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions.   Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.   'Negroland is a sharp-eyed cultural commentary on an era of America that has often been too simply told' Aminatta Forna, Guardian    'Jefferson writes with piercing clarity of a childhood which was full of love and opportunity at home, but also saturated by contradictions, confusions and a racism which corrodes, like rust, to the heart's core' Observer   'Utterly compelling... a remarkable achievement' Sunday Times","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53504695828753,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781803510231.jpg?v=1778084580","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-negroland-by-margo-jefferson","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}