By Margo Jefferson
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At as soon as incendiary and icy, mischievous and provocative, celebratory and elegiac—here is a deeply felt meditation on race, intercourse, and American tradition throughout the prism of the author’s rarefied upbringing and schooling between a black elite eager about distancing itself from whites and the black generality whereas tirelessly measuring itself opposed to both.
Born in upper-crust black Chicago—her father used to be for years head of pediatrics at Provident, on the time the nation’s oldest black health facility; her mom was once a socialite—Margo Jefferson has spent such a lot of her lifestyles between (call them what you'll) the coloured aristocracy, the coloured elite, the blue-vein society. because the 19th century they've got stood aside, those population of Negroland, “a small sector of Negro the United States the place citizens have been sheltered by way of a certain quantity of privilege and plenty.”
Reckoning with the strictures and calls for of Negroland at the most important ancient moments—the civil rights stream, the sunrise of feminism, the fallacy of postracial America—Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a lifestyles proficient by way of mental and ethical contradictions. conscious because it is of heart-wrenching depression and melancholy, this publication is a effective paean to the grace of perseverance.
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When Kaplan took over, the network was averaging 970,000 prime-time viewers. In an attempt to attract a wider audience, Kaplan brought in star anchors and contributors, including former Associated Press reporter John King and political strategist James Carville. He also produced a number of topical news specials and launched Newsstand, a news show featuring longer stories produced in conjunction with TIME magazine. Instead of bringing in viewers, however, these changes just cost the company money.
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