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Race

3 episodes on this topic, in order of publication.

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    S2 · E6 · Apr 30, 2026

    The Hidden Curriculum: When Researchers Chose the Word Violence

    Some words are not just names — they are arguments. This episode examines how researchers came to use "violence" to describe certain institutional practices in education, and what that conceptual shift reveals about adultification, developmental harm, and the unwritten rules children of color meet in kindergarten classrooms long before they meet a textbook.

  • 016

    S2 · E5 · Apr 24, 2026

    The Backlash: Why Newly Legitimate Knowledge Gets Targeted

    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.

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    S2 · E4 · Apr 20, 2026

    Who Gets to Teach It? Representation and the Long Shadow of Brown v. Board

    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.

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