Negroland: A Memoir

The daughter of a Chicago doctor and socialite, Margo Jefferson offers an account of her experience growing up in an upper class family during the 1950s and 60s. Her privileged upbringing in Negroland (the small region where wealthy elite Black Americans lived) gave her a different lens for American culture as a part of an upper crust society that still nonetheless measured itself against white people and distanced itself from lower class Black people. She examines these contradictions as she takes readers through the Civil Rights movement and birth of feminism up to today.