California and the American Dream

California and the American Dream is a four hour documentary series exploring the dynamics of culture, racial diversity and identity within California, the most multiethnic state in America. As America's cultural center slides westward and so-called minorities become majorities in state after state, life in the Golden State offers Americans a glimpse into the future. California and the American Dream will take viewers on a journey through the state's diverse experience and the complex fabric of life in the twenty-first century.

This groundbreaking series will look at the last twenty-five years of the California experience, a pivotal era in the remaking of the state, its evolution in the character of the nation, and its positioning in the global future. California and the American Dream will present a mosaic of many voices, experiences and images, providing an insight and understanding of who we are and where we are going.

One out of four immigrants to the U.S. makes California their home. Immigrants from Latin America and Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific Islands, as well as the original inhabitants -- American Indians -- now comprise the majority of the California's population. Today, California's story is more integral to the history of the country and to the future of the world than ever before. California, where people of so many nationalities have migrated in and so many ideas have migrated out, is the ideal stage for California and the American Dream, a story about all of us.