--- product_id: 32613857 title: "Negroland: A Memoir" price: "€ 49.83" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 url: https://www.desertcart.sk/products/32613857-negroland-a-memoir store_origin: SK region: Slovakia --- # Negroland: A Memoir **Price:** € 49.83 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Negroland: A Memoir - **How much does it cost?** € 49.83 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.sk](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/32613857-negroland-a-memoir) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Negroland: A Memoir [Jefferson, Margo] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Negroland: A Memoir Review: Great Read!!! - Negroland was an engaging and thought-provoking read. As part of my journey of exploring books on middle-class Black American life, I found myself connecting more deeply with Jefferson’s perspective than with many others I’ve read. Her voice is sharp, honest, and layered, making the book not just a memoir but also a cultural critique. Margo Jefferson has certainly gained a new reader in me, and I look forward to exploring more of her work. Review: Another Profound but Disturbing Book about Blacks in America - First, an admission. I attended college with Margo Jefferson. I considered her somewhere between an acquaintance and a friend. I make this admission not because I am biased for or against the book, but because I have been doing a great deal of reading about Black America lately, and with every page I realize that despite my good intentions and all that goes with them, I know so little about the Black experience and am consequently an "other" when reading about it. With that as prologue, I found this book extremely well written, profound and disturbing, and all the more disturbing because of knowing her so many years ago. Margo (as I knew her) was (and, I'm sure, still is) a bright and vivacious woman and was always a pleasure to be with and talk to. The Margo Jefferson who wrote this book may be all those things and more, but there is an "otherness" quality about her that confirms how alien the Black experience is to me and how she may have viewed me and my background. And I suspect I was even more clueless about it then, as a sheltered white kid from the burbs, than I am now (even though I'm still a sheltered white man from the burbs). There's a part of me that wants to apologize for being clueless or possibly even for being white, but it's too little and way too late; besides, I'm not sure there's anything really to apologize for except being what I was, which I couldn't have helped in any case. I gave this book four stars for two reasons: first, because there's a stretch about Margo's thoughts on suicide, which I just have difficulty accepting even though I have no doubt that she felt what she says she felt. And second because there's a stretch about where Margo fits herself into the characters in "Little Women", which I've never read and for which I have no affinity. However, it's a five-star (or more) book in spite of these "deficiencies". Margo, if you ever see this, I'm proud to know you, even if my naiveté and innocence may have been unforgivable. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #516,922 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #545 in African American Demographic Studies (Books) #1,307 in Black & African American Biographies #3,031 in Sociology Reference | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 1,111 Reviews | ## Images ![Negroland: A Memoir - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71LS+nQVU5L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Read!!! *by D***E on August 24, 2025* Negroland was an engaging and thought-provoking read. As part of my journey of exploring books on middle-class Black American life, I found myself connecting more deeply with Jefferson’s perspective than with many others I’ve read. Her voice is sharp, honest, and layered, making the book not just a memoir but also a cultural critique. Margo Jefferson has certainly gained a new reader in me, and I look forward to exploring more of her work. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another Profound but Disturbing Book about Blacks in America *by R***M on October 16, 2016* First, an admission. I attended college with Margo Jefferson. I considered her somewhere between an acquaintance and a friend. I make this admission not because I am biased for or against the book, but because I have been doing a great deal of reading about Black America lately, and with every page I realize that despite my good intentions and all that goes with them, I know so little about the Black experience and am consequently an "other" when reading about it. With that as prologue, I found this book extremely well written, profound and disturbing, and all the more disturbing because of knowing her so many years ago. Margo (as I knew her) was (and, I'm sure, still is) a bright and vivacious woman and was always a pleasure to be with and talk to. The Margo Jefferson who wrote this book may be all those things and more, but there is an "otherness" quality about her that confirms how alien the Black experience is to me and how she may have viewed me and my background. And I suspect I was even more clueless about it then, as a sheltered white kid from the burbs, than I am now (even though I'm still a sheltered white man from the burbs). There's a part of me that wants to apologize for being clueless or possibly even for being white, but it's too little and way too late; besides, I'm not sure there's anything really to apologize for except being what I was, which I couldn't have helped in any case. I gave this book four stars for two reasons: first, because there's a stretch about Margo's thoughts on suicide, which I just have difficulty accepting even though I have no doubt that she felt what she says she felt. And second because there's a stretch about where Margo fits herself into the characters in "Little Women", which I've never read and for which I have no affinity. However, it's a five-star (or more) book in spite of these "deficiencies". Margo, if you ever see this, I'm proud to know you, even if my naiveté and innocence may have been unforgivable. ### ⭐⭐⭐ An Attempt at Exploring Her Life in Full *by R***E on September 11, 2016* Margo Jefferson’s world is a world of pictures, sounds, and smells. So, I don’t get a true sense of what actually happened in her life. Her memoir often reads as several essays instead of chapters, many of which you cannot tell where her voice is. Many plays, books, movies, and major works of art are shared which allows her to reflect herself in them. She is not able to do it on her own. And, I find it puzzling that neither her father’s nor her own childhood pictures match their skin colors as adults. She speaks of hair perms, hair dying, and skin bleaching, but does not tell us if she has used any of those things. There are only clues. Hard to tell, but her Negroland, past and present, is a place where no Negroes are actually allowed unless they embrace Eurocentric values. These values are shown in good and bad ways while truly curly hair (referred to as nappy/kinky), wide noses, full lips, large backsides, and all ways of being Black, down to ways of laughing, etc. are only referred to in a negative light. Jefferson does not seem to be trying to fix anything and present the right values or embrace Blackness. Jefferson wrote this book to exonerate herself. This book is the beginning of some kind of recovery from all she experiences growing up. You get glimpses of her childhood, glimpses of herself as an older adult, and all that lie in between is referred to very quickly as suicidal. Her tangents leave me without a story I can easily share although I now have plenty of references to other books and poems she so often quotes to reflect her mental state. I can see a soul there, but it’s hiding behind so many images that she was pretty much forced to use in order to define herself growing up. She says she at times (or maybe all the time, this is unclear) has problems having “plural relations” with all Negroes—an ‘us’ or a ‘we’—I think because she must believe in the stereotypes and thinks she and her upbringing is a rarity. She seems to be saying that few Blacks in America, let alone any cultures from any African countries, could possibly have the great characteristics she touts, which are mostly aligned, in this book, to White people as a whole. Black people as a whole? Hmmm, she’s clearly not so fond of that. There are just way too many voices coming from Jefferson in this book and by the end I really have no idea which one she wants to be hers. She is conflicted. The description of her family is given only here and there, in contradictory pictures, in a few moments of dialogue, and in the last 20 pages of her book. I enjoyed some parts, but as a whole, realize that she was very afraid to write this book. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.sk/products/32613857-negroland-a-memoir](https://www.desertcart.sk/products/32613857-negroland-a-memoir) --- *Product available on Desertcart Slovakia* *Store origin: SK* *Last updated: 2026-07-22*