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Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir
Striving ardently to be what they were and were not. Behold the Race Flaneur: the bourgeois rebel who goes slumming, and finds not just adventure but the objective correlative for his secret despair.
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Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir
Nadinola Bleaching Cream: "Have you noticed that the nicest things happen to girls with lighter, lovelier complexions?
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Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir
Cyprian Clamorgan ends
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Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir
Regularly denounce Caucasians, whose behavior toward us, and all dark-skinned people, proved they did not morally deserve their privilege. We
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Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir
too, rolled and
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Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir
Being agreeable' is the highest duty of any human being mingling with other people….Practicing good manners should be as natural as displaying the teeth"}.
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Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir
Negro privilege had to be circumspect: impeccable but not arrogant; confident yet obliging; dignified, not intrusive.
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Margo Jefferson _ Negroland: A Memoir
Caucasian privilege lounged and sauntered, draped itself casually about, turned vigilant and commanding, then cunning and devious. We"
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Lawrence Otis Graham is a sprightly gossip in the Clamorgan mode: he writes largely for white magazines and is considered something of an upstart by old-line blacks. His 1999 Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class is a cross-country social whirl of interviews and personal anecdotes. Graham chronicles our old ways, and makes sure to certify their current value with the status symbols of integration; "exclusive" and "prestigious" schools and neighborhoods; "impeccable," even "inspiring" professional credentials; friendships
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