- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 46 min., 45 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Professor and author Molefi Kete Asante was born on August 14, 1942 in Valdosta, Georgia. Asante received his B.A. degree at Oklahoma Christian College and his M.A. degree from Pepperdine University. Asanta completed his Ph.D. degree in communications at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1968. Asante was appointed assistant professor at Purdue University, where he published The Rhetoric of Black Revolution in addition to co-founding the Journal of Black Studies. He directed the Center for Afro American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, creating the department's M.A. degree program, library and community outreach program. Asante wrote over five hundred articles and seventy-five books, including Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change, which he authored in 1980. Asante was appointed head of the Africana Studies program at Temple University in 1984, and, two years later, established Temple University's Ph.D. program in African American Studies. He received over one hundred awards.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Molefi Kete Asante
- Molefi Kete Asante
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208686
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Molefi Kete Asante.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
034645
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2012 May 23.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
African American Studies Professor.
- Added Author
Asante, Molefi Kete, 1942- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.