Negroland: A Memoir

Overview

A memoir of writer Margo Jefferson growing up in 1950s and 1960s America within a small, privileged segment of black American society known as the black bourgeoisie, cf African-American upper class.

Awards and honors

Context

Other books which discuss similar issues include E. Franklin Frazier's sociological Black Bourgeoisie (first edition in English in 1957 translated from the 1955 French original) and Lawrence Otis Graham’s 2000 book, Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class.