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How Textbooks Made America Not So Great

Some of My Best Friends Are

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What Does the Midterms Have to Do With History Textbooks?

Race permeated the entire election, right? There was this whole idea where there's fear mongering about crime. And that gets us into today's episode because we're about to dig into a history of textbooks in America and how they really teach white supremacy. Donald Yachavon is a lifetime researcher at Harvard University's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.

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