Independent Lens · SEASON 11
Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
Episode 12 · 2010-02-02
- Documentary
Episode 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
60 minutes
Season 11 episodes
1. Our Disappeared2009-09-21
2. Butte, America2009-10-20
3. Journals of a Wily School2009-10-27
4. Power Paths2009-11-03
5. D Tour2009-11-10
6. No Subtitles Necessary: László and Vilmos2009-11-17
7. Objectified2009-11-24
8. Between the Folds2009-12-08
9. Scenes From a Parish2009-12-29
10. Young@Heart2010-01-12
11. Copyright Criminals2010-01-19
12. Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness2010-02-02
13. P-Star Rising2010-02-09
14. Mine / Home2010-02-16
15. Behind the Rainbow2010-02-23
16. The Eyes of Me2010-03-02
17. Lost Souls (Animas Perdidas)2010-03-23
18. Whatever It Takes2010-03-30
19. Unmistaken Child2010-04-07
20. Blessed Is the Match2010-04-13
21. Dirt! The Movie2010-04-20
22. Garbage Dreams2010-04-27
23. Sunshine
24. The Horse Boy2010-05-11
25. Project Kashmir2010-05-18
26. A Village Called Versailles2010-05-25
27. Our Disappeared2009-09-21
