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The History of White People in America was done in the style of documentaries about minorities in the United States. The focus is a family of empty-headed white people clueless about the complexities of the world around them. Each 30-minute segment focuses on a particular theme (e.g. religion, crime).
Through musical animated shorts, Webby-nominated THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE IN AMERICA examines how skin color has come to define race in our country. The shorts capture the truth of what it means to be American – that “us” and “them” are constantly redefined, that our racial history deserves contemplation, and that above all else we ...
The History of White People in America: Directed by Harry Shearer. With Martin Mull, Mary Kay Place, Fred Willard, Christian Jacobs. In this parody of documentaries, host Martin Mull discusses the contributions that white people have made to the USA, visits the Institute of White Studies, and follows a typical white family as they go about ...
White Americans (also referred to as European Americans) are Americans who identify as white people. This group constitutes the majority of the people in the United States. According to the 2020 census, 71%, or 235,411,507 people, were White alone or in combination, and 61.6%, or 204,277,273 people, were White alone.
Jul 6, 2020 · Ed and Jon: The History of White People in America will reveal who we are as a nation and how we got to this moment of crisis — of the 400-year transmogrification of skin color into an economic, political and social caste system with whiteness at the top of the pecking order.
Feb 18, 2021 · Through musical animated shorts, The History of White People in America tells the history of how skin became race, and race became power.
Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of “whiteness” for economic, scientific, and political ends.
