”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.
Forget everything you thought you understood about the ethnic roots of heartland America.
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”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.
Forget everything you thought you understood about the ethnic roots of heartland America.
Play a game of word association with the average American.
Say "banjo".
Chances are, a great many would reply with words like "hillbilly" or "redneck".
Some might venture to mention bluegrass music.
How did a musical instrument which started off hundreds of years ago in Africa end-up becoming a symbol of "white" American music culture?
And what if some of the earliest people of non-African ancestry to take-up the banjo were actually...Appalachian Jews?
Join us for another winding trek through the hidden history of heartland America.
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.
Forget everything you thought you understood about the ethnic roots of heartland America.
