26 Season
509 Episode
Independent Lens - Season 11 Episode 12 Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
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
- Year: 2024
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
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- Cast: Stanley Tucci