Negroland – Margo Jefferson

The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicagos black elite. She calls this society Negroland: a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty. With privilege came expectation. Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at crucial historical moments – the civil rights movement the dawn of feminism the fallacy of post-racial America – Jefferson brilliantly charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions.