Negroland A Memoir

Born in upper-crust black Chicago - her father was for years head of pediatrics at Provident, at the time the nation's oldest black hospital, her mother was a socialite - Margo Jefferson (1947) has spent most of her life among 'the colored aristocracy'. Reckoning with the strictures and demands of Negroland at historical moments - the civil rights movement, the dawn of feminism, the fallacy of postracial America - the author charts the twists and turns of a life informed by psychological and moral contradictions.