He believes that middle and upper class black Americans are primarily interested in effacing their history, background and culture and want to copy white people and for example as poets be like white poets and men like doctors.,lawyers etc are often marrying lighter skinned women than themselves.
I would believe this is a complex sentence. It contains a dependent and an independent clause to create one full sentence and a conjunctionn cannot combine the two clauses because of the questioning word in the very beginning of the sentence.
