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99: Devil in the Details
American Textbooks and the History of Teaching White Supremacy
A report from Harvard University's Hutchins Center reveals a long history of white supremacy being taught in American public education textbooks. Authors such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman are cited as having used language that dismissed people of African descent. The segment explores how the royalist political model of Europe was adapted into a color-based hierarchy in the United States to maintain power.