Episode 23 · Season III · S3.E1 · Jun 4, 2026 · 14:57

The Inheritance Tax Intro: Where Ethnic Matching Became

Season 3 opens. Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks names the season — The Inheritance Tax: Where Ethnic Matching Became — and walks listeners into the history before the history. Long before the research field had a term for it, Black, Native, Latino, and Asian communities in the U.S. were already practicing what scholars would later call ethnic matching. This season traces a 130-year practice across four communities and asks what schools owe the inheritance they have been interrupting.

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The Inheritance Tax Intro: Where Ethnic Matching Became

Ethnic matching did not begin as a research variable. It began as a lived reality.

SeriesCultural Context of Knowledge
RecordedJun 4, 2026
Runtime14:57
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“Ethnic matching did not begin as a research variable. It began as a lived reality.
References (7)
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  2. 02Du Bois, W. E. B. (1903). The Talented Tenth · in The Negro Problem · James Pott & Company.
  3. 03Fenwick, L. T. (2022). Jim Crow's Pink Slip: The Untold Story of Black Principal and Teacher Leadership · Harvard Education Press.
  4. 04Givens, J. R. (2021). Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching · Harvard University Press.
  5. 05Siddle Walker, V. (1996). Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South · University of North Carolina Press.
  6. 06Thompson, C. H. (1932). Why a Journal of Negro Education? · The Journal of Negro Education · 1(1) · 1–4.
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