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This episode traces how care was distributed and governed across race and gender. Indigenous care was removed. Black care was extracted. Latina care governed through precarity. Asian American and Pacific Islander care governed through invisibility and aggregation. Immigrant care governed through legal vulnerability. White women positioned as stabilizers. Men — especially white men — closest to power and furthest from daily care. Care did not randomize. It followed governance.

Works & Scholars Referenced

bell hooks — Teaching to Transgress (1994)

Gloria Anzaldúa — Borderlands/La Frontera (1987)

Grace Lee Boggs — The Next American Revolution (2011)

Peggy McIntosh — “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (1989)

Maurice Sykes — Doing the Right Thing for Children (2013)

Chrishana Lloyd et al. — Mary Pauper: A Historical Exploration of Early Care and Education Compensation, Policy, and Solutions (Child Trends, 2022)

Leah Austin — National Black Child Development Institute leadership

Lea J.E. Austin — CSCCE workforce equity research

Films & Documentaries

13th (2016) — Criminalization and racial hierarchy

Asian Americans (PBS, 2020) — Immigration and racial formation

Who We Are (2021) — Structural racism in law

Make A Circle (2025) — PBS documentary following early childhood educators organizing for dignity, compensation, and systemic reform

Reflecting on Anti-Bias Education in Action: The Early Years (2021) — Produced by Debbie LeeKeenan & John Nimmo; anti-bias practice in early childhood classrooms

We Still Live Here – Âs Nutayuneân (2011) — Wampanoag language revitalization

Language Is Life (PBS, 2023) — Indigenous language revitalization across tribal communities

Make A Circle (2025) — PBS documentary following early childhood educators organizing for dignity, compensation, and systemic reform

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