Independent Lens

A Place of Our Own: Black Resort Communities and the African American Dream (5x15)

Air date: Feb 17, 2004

Stanley Nelson is a third-generation, upper middle-class African American who spent the past 40 summers in Oak Bluffs, an affluent African-American resort community on Martha's Vineyard. Building on personal stories of summers past, this film explores the tightly-knit world of black professionals who created a refuge to call their own.