Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class

An exploration of the external and internal pressures that the Negro middle class was facing at a watershed moment in American political history. Using extensive location shooting, archival footage, a bit of dramatization, and interviews with more than two dozen subjects, 'Still a Brother' demonstrates how persistent racism negated the Negro's increasing educational and professional advances, dashing their hopes for a "truly equalitarian multiracial America." At the same time, the middle-class Negro struggled psychologically with a normative white middle class value system, particularly as that system was being challenged by rising Black militancy and "Soul" aesthetics among Black youth and lower classes.