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
Episodes in Season 11
Our Disappeared
60 min
Butte, America
60 min
Journals of a Wily School
60 min
Power Paths
60 min
D Tour
60 min
No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos
60 min
Objectified
60 min
Between the Folds
60 min
Scenes From a Parish
60 min
Young@Heart
60 min
Copyright Criminals
60 min
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
60 min
P-Star Rising
60 min
Mine / Home
60 min
Behind the Rainbow
60 min
The Eyes of Me
60 min
Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)
60 min
Whatever It Takes
60 min
Unmistaken Child
60 min
Blessed Is the Match
60 min
Dirt! The Movie
60 min
Garbage Dreams
60 min
Sunshine
60 min
The Horse Boy
60 min
Project Kashmir
60 min
A Village Called Versailles
60 min
Our Disappeared
60 min