The story of Wendell B. Harris, Jr.’s “Chameleon Street,” winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize back in 1990, validates the story in Wendell B. Harris Jr.’s “Chameleon Street”, insofar as they make a bleak portrait of Black American success spanning 1990 to 2021: If you don’t conform to social and cultural expectations, you fail, and if you do, it may only be but a matter of time until you fail anyway.

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