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1 online resource (1 streaming video file (57 min.)) |
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Who has the authority to define a culture--especially if people from that culture are denied the opportunity to engage in the scholarly discourse of defining themselves? Is there a politics of knowledge? This program examines these questions through a look at the career of pioneering anthropologist Melville J. Herskovits. A son of Jewish immigrants, Herskovits played a decisive role in shaping modern African-American identities. He established the first African Studies Center at an American university and authored the seminal Myth of the Negro Past, yet much of his work was criticized by blacks and whites alike. This documentary traces Herskovits's development as a scholar of the shared African-American and Jewish experiences of oppression to his establishment as one of the most controversial intellectuals of the 20th century. (57 minutes) A streaming videorecording |
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Title from title screns (viewed June 14, 2013) |
| Credits |
Director of photography, Tom Fahey ; animation, Susan Chien [and others] ; editor, James Rutenbeck ; original music, Darryl Harper, Xavier Davis ; producer, director of research, Vincent Brown |
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Interviewees: K. Anthony Appiah, Lee D. Baker, Vincent Brown, Johnnetta Cole, Jean Herskovits Corry, Jerry Gershenhorn, Gelya Frank, Mae Ngai |
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Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963.
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Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963. |
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Anthropologists -- Africa, West -- Biography
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Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography
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Anthropology -- Philosophy
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Racism in anthropology -- United States
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Streaming video.
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streaming video.
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Anthropologists.
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Anthropology -- Philosophy.
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Racism in anthropology.
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Streaming video.
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West Africa.
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United States.
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Internet videos.
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Nonfiction films.
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Biographies.
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Nonfiction films.
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Streaming video.
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Films autres que de fiction.
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Streaming video
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Films Media Group.
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