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Independent Lens - Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness

Seizoen: 11 - Aflevering: 12 / 219 - Eerst uitgezonden: 02 februari 2010 - Episode ID: 493865

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