This documentary examines a Chicago suburb where the integration of black and white middle class families is an assumed fact, and explores the destruction of this social web upon the arrival of poorer families. White liberal families and middle class black families want to move out but all cannot afford it: those families staying behind are no longer confronted with a racial situation but must face a class conflict. Some of these families decide to stay on to fight ... and educate others.The format requires a direct technical approach where the camera becomes, in a straight out manner, a direct witness of events and lets the topic speak for itself, without interviews.WHITE OAK GOES BLACK is not the classical television document: television here becomes a moment, a “hot” chronicle on the life of a community and its future.