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A review by cecile87
Negroland by Margo Jefferson
3.0
I'm having trouble with all the tone changes. I did appreciate the history at the beginning. I reverberated to some of the trials she experienced as I am also a black woman in this country. Call me dense, but the Little Women references eluded me. It's been more that 40 years since I read the book and I was never interested in any of the cinematic versions.
I don't know to whom she was directing her story. Some members of my book club felt she was writing to white folks and not to us as black women. Some felt that had Margo been happy about her status in Negroland, she would have never written the book. If she had risen to the top tier of this group, she'd be like the rest--silent about it.
I've been slogging through this memoir and probably won't finish it.
I don't know to whom she was directing her story. Some members of my book club felt she was writing to white folks and not to us as black women. Some felt that had Margo been happy about her status in Negroland, she would have never written the book. If she had risen to the top tier of this group, she'd be like the rest--silent about it.
I've been slogging through this memoir and probably won't finish it.