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Two Nations of Black America

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ID #: 
287D
Film Type: 
DVD
Playing Time: 
60 mins
Release Date: 
1998
Color or BW: 
Color and B&W
Description: 
In this Frontline report, correspondent Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard scholar, explores the gaping chasm between the upper and lower classes of black America and probes why it has happened: "How have we reached this point where we have both the largest black middle class and the largest black underclass in our history?"
Keywords: 
African Americans, documentary, lower class, middle class, upper class