Topic: Primitivism

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64: We Are People 2
2:09:07 - 2:14:55

64: We Are People 2

Charlotte Osgood Mason and the Black God Complex

Charlotte Osgood Mason is highlighted as a "Miss Anne" who believed she was a "black god" and a "psychic physician." She funded geniuses like Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes but viewed black people as "primitive" and "childlike" energies needed to heal a "washed out" white America. The hosts discuss the power dynamics of such philanthropy and the discomfort of "code-switching" in interracial interactions.