Why can't we live together
By: Scripps Howard News Productions ; directed by Craig Leake ; written by Tom Brokaw, Craig Leake ; produced by Andrea Malin
Contributors: NBC News
Series: SOC 350 (NU course); EXC 625 (NU course); SOC 445 (NU course)
Publisher: NBC News
Published: 1997
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 49
Subjects: Discrimination in housing; African Americans; Housing; Suburbs; Video recordings for the hearing impaired; Race relations
Other titles: Tom Brokaw reports; Dateline NBC (Television program)
Description: Examines the realities of racial separation in American suburbia even after the end of legal discrimination in housing. Looks at Chicago's changing south suburbs, particularly Matteson. Discusses the social and economic consequences of black families moving in to middle-class, predominantly white suburbs and the resulting white flight, which can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Examines white fears of increasing crime, falling property values, decreasing quality of education, and interracial dating and black perspectives on the attitudes of their new neighbors.
Notes: Originally broadcast as a special edition of the television program Dateline NBC on June 27, 1997.

Camera, Keith Walker, George Peebles, Bill Wilson ; editor, Douglas Cheek.

Reporter, Tom Brokaw.

VHS.

Closed-captioned.