Media misremembers the Atlantic pirates as mere agents of chaos. But historians now believe that pirates lived by a strict moral code that put them in opposition to imperialism and slavery. UnTextbooked producer Ming-Wei Cyprien Fasquelle interviews Marcus Rediker on his book Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in The Golden Age.
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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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Germany’s reckoning with their Nazi past could give America a roadmap for dealing with our long history of racism. UnTextbooked Producer Lap Nguyen interviews Susan Neiman, author of Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil.
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