Independent Lens (1999)
Season 11: Episode 12
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
532 totalAvailability
Multiple subtitles. Streaming in Full HD quality.
Information
USA · 530 episodes
Overview
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
Cast
Stanley Tucci
IMDB
View on IMDbTMDB
View on TMDBTrailer
Searching for trailer...
