Cultural Continuity and the Recovery of Black History with Debora Heard
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 25 October 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
For centuries, white historians’ have attempted to erase and whitewash Black history. Despite their best efforts, it can’t be erased. Today, we're talking with Debora Heard to help us reclaim and recover the history many have attempted to falsify. A Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Chicago, she’s dedicated much time to provide African-descended people with access, opportunity, and training in fields of ancient Nile valley and Northeast African studies. Knowing your history makes you stronger -- we just have to recover it first.
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| 0:43.4 | It wouldn't always like this, you know? |
| 0:46.6 | Living in a world where so much of our history has been debased and whitewashed. |
| 0:53.3 | Eyes about where we come from and who we are have indoctrinated many of us to view ourselves |
| 1:00.1 | and each other through a distorted lens. |
| 1:04.2 | But what you see ain't always what you get. |
| 1:07.4 | I'm Jay from Push Black and you're listening to Black History Year. |
| 1:16.4 | As the saying goes, history is written by the victors and in the Eurocentric world order, |
| 1:23.7 | violently colonizing an entire continent makes one triumphant, disgusting, right? |
| 1:30.7 | But those are the hands so much of our history has been left in. |
| 1:35.9 | White supremacists who have for centuries were tirelessly to disconnect us from our roots. |
| 1:42.5 | Our guests today, however, has taken us back, way back to the truth of our origins and |
| 1:48.3 | the truth of our history. |
| 1:51.0 | Deborah Hurd is a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Chicago, specializing |
| 1:57.6 | in Nubian archaeology and Egyptian history and language. |
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