Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness

Synopsis: Who has the authority to define a culture? Is there "objective" scholarship and, if so, how does it become politicised? Race and scholarship collide in a new film on Melville J. Herskovits, the pioneering American anthropologist of African Studies and controversial intellectual who established the first African Studies centrer at an American university and authored the seminal "The Myth of the Negro Past".
Language: English
Country: United States
Year of release: 2009
Year of production: 2009
Subjects: Anthropology; Social Studies
Keywords: civil rights; cultural theory; race relations; African-Americans; Herskovits, Melville J

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