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Best of Season 1
Best of Season 1

Our favorite moments from UnTextbooked’s inaugural season.

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Why did American Jews march for Black equality?
Why did American Jews march for Black equality?

Despite racial and class tensions, American Jews were an integral part of the Civil Rights Movement. UnTextbooked producer Daniel Ardity interviews Cheryl Greenberg, author of Troubling the Waters about what the “golden age” of Black-Jewish relations can teach us about effective allyship.

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The forgotten mothers of American gynecology.
The forgotten mothers of American gynecology.

Black enslaved women and poor Irish immigrants were the human test subjects of early gynecological research, but we don’t even know who most of them were. UnTextbooked producer Ruba Memon interviews Deirdre Cooper Owens about her book Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology.

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History fails when it ignores the BIPOC women who made it.
History fails when it ignores the BIPOC women who made it.

Why does it often seem like history’s written for someone else? UnTextbooked producer Sophia Andrews interviews the author Mikki Kendall about her graphic novel Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists.

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