America Beyond the Color Line

Overview

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard's chair of Afro-American Studies, travels the length and breadth of the United States to take the temperature of black America at the start of the new century. He explores this rich and diverse landscape, social as well as geographic, and meets the people who are defining black America, from the most famous and influential to those at the grassroots.

Network

• PBS

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

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  Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

  Self - Host

  4 eps

• 

  Chris Tucker

  Self

  1 ep

• 

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Self

  1 ep

• 

  Alicia Keys

  Self

  1 ep

Themes

• racism
• race relations

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