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Examines the forgotten legacy of Melville Herskovits, a controversial Jewish anthropologist whose writings in the 40s and 50s challenged widely held assumptions about race and culture.
Using photomontage re-creations, interviews, animation, original
field footage and recordings, this film examines the forgotten
legacy of Melville Herskovits. The controversial Jewish
anthropologist's writings in the 40s and 50s challenged widely held
assumptions about race and culture by insisting that we look at the
world through each other's lives and histories. By Llewellyn Smith
and Christine Herbes-Sommers.
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