Denial: An American Dilemma - Vital Pictures

In Development: A Two-hour special for PBS How robust today is our ’American Creed?’ Does it still impact notions of race and class, in today’s America? Sixty years ago, this was the driving question in Gunnar Myrdal’s landmark An American Dilemma. That study laid bare the terrifying dissonance between the American dream and Jim Crow reality. In Voices From An American Dilemma we follow the making of that study. With animation, never seen archival footage and innovative production techniques, we explore the very same issues as they effect us today. A diverse “chorus“ of commentators discuss contemporary democratic practices, race and identity through their own personal experience of what it means to be an American now in our so-called post racial era.