Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 152; Afro-american Studies

thumbnail of Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 152; Afro-american Studies
View online at digitalcollections.hoover.org
This record is featured in “The Odyssey of Black Studies in Public Broadcasting.” This record is featured in “Firing Line.”
Series
Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.
Episode Number
152
Episode
Afro-american Studies
Producing Organization
WOR-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Contributing Organization
Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/514-j678s4kj6z
If you have more information about this item than what is given here, or if you have concerns about this record, we want to know! Contact us, indicating the AAPB ID (cpb-aacip/514-j678s4kj6z).
Description
Episode Description
The lively discussion centers on what black studies is or should be: an academic discipline like any other, or a means, as Professor Lincoln put it, of deterring the sort of "black prejudice against blackness" that he himself had grown up with. EL: "I arrived on the campus there and saw a vast sea of people who didn't look like me. They were all white. Every person I saw was white.... This is the kind of experience that you never-" DB: "Yes, I have-when I went to Texas Southern to teach, which is a Negro college.... Suddenly all my students, my chairman, my dean, my president, were Negro.... They're sort of sitting around rapping in Texanese and I don't know what they're saying, and I felt ghastly. I know exactly what you mean." EL: "No. Let me tell you the difference. You were never unaware of the fact that ...all you had to do was walk off the campus ... and you suddenly regained all the power and the prestige and the preference that is yours in this society. I cannot do that in Chicago. I have nowhere to walk-but back into the ghetto." Currently there is only a digitized transcript available for this episode.
Series Description
The television series Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. was a venue for debate and discussion on political, social, and philosophical issues with experts of the day. Firing Line broadcasts from 1966 through March 1971 were produced and syndicated by WOR-TV, a commercial station in New York, but some of them were also broadcast on noncommercial television stations. Starting in April 1971, Firing Line broadcasts were produced by the Southern Educational Communications Association, an arm of South Carolina Educational Television. Hoover Institution Library & Archives' Firing Line collection guide can be found at: https://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/firing-line.
Date
1969-06-02
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Talk Show
Topics
Public Affairs
Subjects
United States; Study and teaching; African Americans; Education (Higher)
Rights
Copyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
Media type
Moving Image
Embed Code
Copy and paste this HTML to include AAPB content on your blog or webpage.
Credits
Guest: Brudnoy, David
Guest: Lincoln, C. Eric (Charles Eric)
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Producing Organization: WOR-TV (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.152 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 0:50:00
If you have a copy of this asset and would like us to add it to our catalog, please contact us.
Citations
Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 152; Afro-american Studies,” 1969-06-02, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed December 30, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-j678s4kj6z.
MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 152; Afro-american Studies.” 1969-06-02. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. December 30, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-j678s4kj6z>.
APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; 152; Afro-american Studies. Boston, MA: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-j678s4kj6z