Black & Privileged: Poor African Americans “intrude” on an affluent Chicago neighborhood
Black & Privileged, a television movie directed by Chicago-based, independent film director Mark Harris (Black Butterfly, Black Coffee, Nothing like Thanksgiving), was released on Netflix in 2019. The movie stars Dawnisha Halfkenny, Simeon Henderson and Corey Hendrix.
The film raises, but in a glancing and unsatisfactory manner, a nearly taboo subject in America—wealth and class divisions, including divisions within the African-American population. Such issues beg for serious artistic treatment at present.
At its best moments, Black & Privileged cuts or threatens to cut across the outlook of identity politics promoted by sections of the upper-middle class—the same layers that view the election of the first black or female as president of the United States as a world-historical event.
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