The Evolution of Identity in the 20th Century

The 20th century sees a fundamental explosion in the questions that black people ask given that they fit within certain hierarchies throughout society. How do we engineer and change society so that we can mirror and determine ourselves for ourselves? That's a different perspective than the kinds of ethnomological arguments that you're getting coming out of the 19th century. The 20th century then situates us in a world that really does serve as the bedrock of how we think of our intellectual histories today.