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Episode Details: Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
Series: Independent Lens
Season: Season 11
Episode Number: 12
Air Date:
Duration: 60 min
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
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