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Subtrope of [[Politically Correct History]]. See also [[Not Even Bothering With the Accent]], [[Race Lift]].
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* ''[[Sakura Taisen]] V'' features an African-American female lawyer in the [[The Roaring Twenties]]; while college-educated black professionals were far from unheard of since the early 1900s, what's odd is that this character never has to fight prejudice or racism in the series (which instead would have been likely). Even for an [[Alternate History]], this is just stretching it a bit.
* Hilariously happens, as quoted above in ''[[Durarara]]''; Semyon Brezhnev, better known as Simonis a [[Gentle Giant|7 foot tall]] [[Scary Black Man|black]] [[Husky Russkie|Russian]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|sushi tout]] in Ikebukuro. In the ''[[Refuge in Audacity|Russian]]'' sushi shop. While definitely ''not'' impossible (Pushkin's great-grandfather, for example, was an African who came to Russia in the 18th Century), it is a very unlikely situation, mostly because there's simply aren't that many black Russians around. And then there's the fact that most Russian sushi shops are atrocious in the country, so a bunch of Russians successfully selling them ''in Tokyo'' is, again, unlikely. Though author seems to [[Shown Their Work|know]] all this and aims at the [[Rule of Funny]]. Explained by the fact that Semyon's parents were Americans who moved to Russia.
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* German actor Günther Kaufmann, whose father was an African-American GI, plays one of the Vikings in ''Wickie und die starken Männer'' (''Wickie and the strong Men''), thus [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|making this a very literal example of this trope]]. Due to heavy Viking make up, Kaufmann's actual ethnicity is hard to tell, though.
* In one DVD version of ''[[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'', two of the brothers (Judah and Benjamin) are played by black actors. This is something of a characterization problem, since the two were born to different mothers, according to Genesis. The other ten brothers are pretty much all over the apparent ethnicity map (the twelve had the same father, who had four wives). And Joseph's father Jacob did have concubines who may have been of different ethnicities than his two wives (who were sisters). Jacob having had black sons is not impossible. On the other hand, Benjamin is supposed to be ''full'' brother of Joseph. In any case, that particular version is [[Rule of Funny|a comedy]].
* In ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'', Judas (the [[Villain Protagonist]]) is famously black, while Jesus is white. Although a lot has been read into this about demonization and the [[Civil Rights Movement]], it turns out Carl Anderson was simply the [[Chewing the Scenery|best man for the role]]. [[Norman Jewison]] may have also been a bit color blind, being from [[Canada, Eh?|Canada]], where racial tensions are a little different. Regardless, Carl Anderson and Ted Neely (as Jesus) are both excellently cast and turn in virtuoso performances.
* This might allude to ''The Robe'' from the 1950s, where [[Finding Judas|Judas]] was played by ''[[Unfortunate Implications|the only middle eastern guy]]'' in the cast!
* In a flashback in ''[[Transformers (Film)|Transformers]] 2'', the Fallen is attacked by various native ancient Africans. Among them is a white male.
* Eartha Kitt as Freya the Norn in ''[[Erik the Viking (Film)|Erik the Viking]]''. Her performance is so well done, though, that most people key to the fact that Eartha Kitt is a ''black'' woman playing a Norse soothsayer [[Fridge Logic|only after the movie is over]]. The fact that Eartha is [[But Not Too Black|Not Too Black]] also helps a little.
* ''[[The Mummy Trilogy (Film)|The Mummy Trilogy]]'' has a few [[Ancient Egypt|Ancient Egyptian]] played by white actors -- mostly avoided, but Nefertiti and the Pharaoh stand out.
* The famously controversial ''[[Three Hundred]]'' film has ''a lot'' of Black noblemen and generals in the Persian Empire camp, not to mention the almost-Black [[God
* There's a whole [[Friendly Local Chinatown]] in ''[[Gangs of New York]]'', and half the story is set in a Chinese cathouse, which historians were quick to point out the Chinese population was nonexistent at the time.
* In ''[[Hoosiers (Film)|Hoosiers]]'', the state championship game features the Hickory Huskers playing the "David" role to the "Goliath" South Bend Central Bears. However, South Bend apparently toppled a few giants as well. Look at the South Bend bench and their section of the stands. Racially integrated basketball team, racially integrated cheerleader squad, black head coach(!), and all this happening not in 1960s New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago, but in Indiana, in 1952.
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* A [[Peter David]] novel about King Arthur in modern times, ''Knight Life'', casts Percival, the Grail Knight, as a Moor. Everyone is totally surprised by this in the novel (and a scholar or two "refutes" it in front of him).
* Ranec, from Jean M. Auel's ''[[Earths Children|The Mammoth Hunters]]'', is a black Cro-Magnon living in Ancient Russia north of the Caspian Sea. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by the fact that, in his youth, Ranec's father made a long journey to the region that is now Ethiopia, married a woman there, and returned to Russia with his son after his wife's death.
* Both played straight and inverted in [[Michael Chabon (Creator)|Michael Chabon]]'s ''[[Literature/Gentlemen Of The Road|Gentlemen Of The Road]]'', whose protagonists are a black African (probably from Ethiopia or thereabout, where there is a tribe of African Jews called Beth Israel) and a ([[White
* Sanya, one of the [[Paladin|knights of the Cross]] in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', is a black Russian. He himself notes that he's a rarity, and mentions how he couldn't go into certain rural villages without becoming the town spectacle.
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