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Jun 10, 2026 16 min

The Teacher They Built

from Cultural Context of Knowledge Hosted by Dr. Donald Easton-Brooks

Picture four teachers, in the same country, in the same years before the Civil War. They never meet. They speak four different languages. And without knowing it, each one makes the same decision. In St. Louis, a formerly enslaved Black minister teaches children in a church basement. In a Southwest parish, a teacher holds a classroom in Spanish for Mexican children. On the California coast, Chinese families fund a school for the children the public system locked out. And in the Cherokee Nation, teachers educate children in Cherokee. This episode tells those four histories together, the way they actually happened, at the same time. It is the story of ethnic matching long before the research gave it a name. Join the email list for the show notes, the full reference list, and the written companion to every episode, plus the series reading list to start: https://podcast.donaldeastonbrooks.com/subscribe?from=podcast

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