Finding Your Roots

Season 1 Episode 10: Adrian Grenier, Michelle Rodriguez and Linda Chavez

Michelle Rodriguez, Adrian Grenier and Linda Chavez all share Spanish colonial roots, yet each views their own identity very differently. In this episode we ask what it means to be Hispanic-and find that the answer lies in the tangled histories of European, Native American and African peoples. Crisscrossing Mexico, Spain, the Caribbean, and the Southwest, Professor Gates reveals stories of ancestral Conquistadors, Indian rebels, and "Crypto-Jews" (Spanish Jews who converted to Catholicism to survive the Inquisition, yet continued to practice their religion ...

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

12

Episodes:

126

Actor:

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Quality:

HD

Status:

Returning Series

First Air:

2012

IMDb:

6.5