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Season 11 Episode 12 - Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
6.5 ?
1999
Documentary
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
Episodes in Season 11
1
Our Disappeared
60 min
2
Butte, America
60 min
3
Journals of a Wily School
60 min
4
Power Paths
60 min
5
D Tour
60 min
6
No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos
60 min
7
Objectified
60 min
8
Between the Folds
60 min
9
Scenes From a Parish
60 min
10
Young@Heart
60 min
11
Copyright Criminals
60 min
12
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
60 min
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60 min
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The Eyes of Me
60 min
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60 min
18
Whatever It Takes
60 min
19
Unmistaken Child
60 min
20
Blessed Is the Match
60 min
21
Dirt! The Movie
60 min
22
Garbage Dreams
60 min
23
Sunshine
60 min
24
The Horse Boy
60 min
25
Project Kashmir
60 min
26
A Village Called Versailles
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27
Our Disappeared
60 min
