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Take Back Your Mind. Part 2 (1971-11-30)
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Black Journal presents a two part survey of Black Studies programs, which it calls the institutional guardian of the new black value system born from the struggle for freedom. According to Black Journal executive producer Tony Brown, This institution is in trouble, for it has failed to define itself and the system it guards. Black administrators don't seem to understand that we're being loved to death, sort of kissed out of existences, says Dr. Milton White, director of Black Studies at the University of California, as he voices objection to the compromises forced on blacks who work within the white academic structure. Dr. White is one of many black administrators, teachers, and students questioned by Black Journal. Discussing the difficulties in Black Studies, he points to the recruitment of old Negro history teacher types who teach young blacks about Crispus Attucks and Malcolm X but fail to relate them to the present struggle. He also disparages the presence of those establishment-prone blacks thoroughly endowed with white middle-class values. Other blacks offer their view of the Black Studies programs and of the new value system: -One UCLA student laments the fact that her Afri…
Directors & creators
Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Black Journal, Tony Brown, Milton White, Leroy Higgenbotham, Howard Fuller, Black Studies, Malcolm X Liberation University, University of California Los Angeles, Watts, Crispus Attucks, Malcolm X, white nationalism, Black middle class, African American higher education, civil rights movement
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