Before the Term: What the Field Looked Like Before 'Ethnic Matching' Had a Name
Season 3 opens before the research. Long before any economist isolated a same-race-teacher effect in a state dataset, Black educators in the segregated South had deliberately built the conditions that effect would eventually measure. A history of ethnic matching as a practice that existed, was theorized, and was dismantled, before it ever had a name.
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“The numbers came later. The thing the numbers describe came first.
- 01Cooper, A. J. (1892). A Voice from the South · Aldine Printing House.
- 02Du Bois, W. E. B. (1903). The Talented Tenth · in The Negro Problem · James Pott & Company.
- 03Fenwick, L. T. (2022). Jim Crow's Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership · Harvard Education Press.
- 04Givens, J. R. (2021). Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching · Harvard University Press.
- 05Siddle Walker, V. (1996). Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South · University of North Carolina Press.
- 06Thompson, C. H. (1932). Why a Journal of Negro Education? · The Journal of Negro Education · 1(1) · 1–4.
Companion essay — Before the Term
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