The daughter of a successful paediatrician & a fashionable socialite,  Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago`s black elite. She calls this society ` Negroland`: `a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege & plenty`. With privilege came expectation. Reckoning with the strictures & 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 & turns of a life informed by psychological & moral contradictions.