Before We Were White – Episode 20: “Lights and Makeup”
What connects The Mayflower with an iconic screen adaptation of Mary Shelley‘s Frankenstein?
And what connects the 1931 James Whale film Frankenstein with the 1956 Hollywood musical The King and I?
Why do so many Americans show South Asian ancestry in DNA tests?
And where exactly does John Wayne fit into all of this?
Sometimes the real horror is the story behind the actors and storytellers…
Before We Were White takes a mid-point break from our four part series on the history of Christianity in America – “New, Improved, and Super-Sanctified“.
Join us as we explore some of the darkness at the heart of Tinsel Town’s Golden Era.
About Before We Were White
Before We Were White will be highly contentious revisionist history at its most unflinching.
Before We Were White will tell real stories of heartland America, drawing upon facts and evidence buried deep underneath the “official story”.
Everything from outlaws, river pirates and prairie bandits, to Cherokee midwives and witch trials, fake eugenics, colonial-era Muslims, snake handlers, African-American cowboys, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, Jewish hillbillies, “sporting girls”, Mountain Gypsies and Creole Irish will get their turn under the magnifying lens.
Whether your interest is in history, politics, ethnology, folklore, music, genealogy, or just a cracking good story, you will find something here to astonish and amaze, entertain and educate.
Forget everything you thought you knew about North American history.
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