In Save the Last Dance, the school Sara attends in Chicago is primarily black. She doesn't seem to be phased by this demographic shift, though she's one of the few white people in the school. What is strange, however, is that while, for the most part, there isn't any hostility between the white kids and the black kids in the school, they don't really mingle much. Instead, it seems that white kids more or less stick to themselves.
Seeing this kind of racial segregation in a movie that takes place in the 2000s is unnerving, though it might not actually be too far off the mark. While Chicago is one of the most racially diverse cities in the United States, it's also one of the most segregated. Different racial groups largely stick to their own neighborhoods across the city and, it seems, to their own lunch tables.
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