Summary Of Two Nations Of Black America
The film, "Two Nations of Black America" compares the black community in 1967 to how it was in 1997.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explains the widening gap between the upper and lower classes of black America while analyzing just how we could concurrently have the greatest black middle class and greatest black underclass in the history of the United States. As black success continues to have growth, Gates highlights how that positive trend is counteracted by deepening black despair. Many years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., there has been much success in American blacks having gained middle-class status thanks to the civil rights movement and affirmative action. While some are left to contend with poverty in the lower class as well.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explains the widening gap between the upper and lower classes of black America while analyzing just how we could concurrently have the greatest black middle class and greatest black underclass in the history of the United States. As black success continues to have growth, Gates highlights how that positive trend is counteracted by deepening black despair. Many years after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., there has been much success in American blacks having gained middle-class status thanks to the civil rights movement and affirmative action. While some are left to contend with poverty in the lower class as well.