Negroland: A Memoir is a 2015 book by Margo Jefferson.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} It is a memoir of growing up in 1950s and 1960s America within a small, privileged segment of black American society known as the black bourgeoisie, or African-American upper class.

Negroland: A Memoir was published to acclaim in 2015. It was described by Dwight Garner in The New York Times as a "powerful and complicated memoir",^[6] and by Margaret Busby in The Sunday Times as "utterly compelling",^[7] while Anita Sethi wrote in The Observer: "Jefferson fascinatingly explores how her personal experience intersected with politics, from the civil rights movement to feminism, as well as history before her birth."^[8] Tracy K. Smith wrote in The New York Times: "The visible narrative apparatus of 'Negroland' highlights its author's extreme vulnerability in the face of her material. It also makes apparent the all-too-often invisible fallout of our nation's ongoing obsession with race and class: Namely, that living a life as an exemplar of black excellence — and living with the survivor's guilt that often accompanies such excellence — can have a psychic effect nearly as deadening and dehumanizing as that of racial injustice itself."^[9]

In 2016, Negroland was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction^[10][11] and won the National Book Critics Circle Award in the Autobiography category.

• 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award (Autobiography), winner.^[12]
• June 2016, chosen as a Book of the Week by BBC Radio 4.
• 2016 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize.^[13]

• E. Franklin Frazier's sociological Black Bourgeoisie (first edition in English in 1957 translated from the 1955 French original)
• Lawrence Otis Graham's Our Kind of People: Inside America’s Black Upper Class (2000)