To her mother's delight, beautiful, high-stepping Yoruba of Harlem has been invited to participate in the cotillion that is thrown annually by the African American high society of Brooklyn. Caught between the sardonic indifference of her father, the excited determination of her social-climbing mother, and her prodigal boyfriend's militancy, Yoruba ultimately persuades her sister debutantes to shock the aging society doyennes in one of the most sidesplitting scenes in American literature.<BR>The Cotillion is a satire that captures the conflicts between activists and social climbers within black society in the 1960s.