History

S2 · E5 · Apr 24, 2026

Marginalized knowledge does not stay marginalized, and it does not stay curricular either. This episode names the three-move cycle — dismissal, absorption, restriction — that dominant knowledge systems run when bodies of knowledge from the margin reach the record, and traces its most recent appearance in the wave of state-level curriculum laws since 2020.

S2 · E4 · Apr 20, 2026

Integration happened to the students — it did not happen to the teaching profession. Revisits the Brown v. Board–era displacement of Black educators rarely included in the standard story, and examines what decades of research on ethnic matching reveal about student outcomes.

S2 · E3 · Mar 9, 2026

Explores the history of ethnic studies and how student movements challenged universities to recognize marginalized histories and perspectives — and how expanding participation reshapes the boundaries of legitimate knowledge.