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Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (11x12)


Ausstrahlung: Feb 02, 2010

Who has the authority to define your identity? Considered one of the most controversial scholars of our time, Melville Herskovits — a Jewish anthropologist — challenged the norm in the 1940s when he wrote that black culture wasn’t pathological, it was African. Leading a seismic shift in the way African American culture is understood, Herskovits’s work raises ideas that still

  • Premiere: Aug 1999
  • Episoden: 529
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