All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 How America Invented Race

    • July 6, 2020
    • PBS

    The white “race” was invented by rich Virginians in 1676 in the aftermath of a populous rebellion of impoverished, indentured, and enslaved Africans and Europeans now known as Bacon’s Rebellion.

  • S01E02 How America Outlawed Interracial Marriage

    • July 7, 2020
    • PBS

    In the decades after Bacon's Rebellion, an African man and an English woman - husband and wife - sing of their their fate, their future as law by law, edict by edict, their family, their marriage, their love are made illegal.

  • S01E03 How America Turned Skin Color Into Power

    • July 8, 2020
    • PBS

    How skin became color, color became race and race became power as told by President #ThomasJefferson, Sally Hemings, and one of their six children, Eston Hemings.

Additional Specials

  • SPECIAL 0x1 Meet the Makers

    • October 12, 2020
    • PBS

    Meet the Makers of THE HISTORY OF WHITE PEOPLE IN AMERICA, a series examining how skin color has come to define race in our country. Featuring filmmakers Jon Halperin and Pierce Freelon, guests Cornelius Moore and Ronda Taylor Bullock, and musical performances with Nnenna Freelon, Pierce Freelon and Alan Thompson.