![]() Children in Negroland were warned that few Negroes enjoyed privilege or plenty and that most whites would be glad to see them returned to indigence, deference, and subservience. The enclave of black affluence in which Jefferson grew up was not only a physical location but also an ideological one, which she calls “Negroland,” her “name for a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. From a young age, Jefferson questioned her mother about her exact status and learned that her family was “upper class by Negro standards” and “upper-middle-class” by white standards, but “Just More Negroes” to most whites. Her father was a pediatrician and her mother a socialite. ![]() ![]() ![]() Jefferson was born into an affluent family in Chicago. ![]()
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