Negroland is a memoir by American writer Margo Jefferson. It was published in 2015 by Pantheon Books. Margo was born in 1947 in an affluent African-American neighborhood, to a pediatrician father and socialite mother. They made it possible for her to attend the University of Chicago Lab School.
Margo's minority status at the school exposes her to a whole different world than the one she was raised in. She realizes that the society at large is hostile to her kind. Margo is however one of the lucky people of color who can afford to live in an affluent community of African-Americans. Due to these worldly contrasts, the prejudice against her are all the more visible when she steps out into the world.
The constant reminder of her race and social class exposed just how privileged Margo was despite being an African-American. Negroland won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography and was nominated for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction.
