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New York Liberation School (Common Notions)

New York Liberation School (Common Notions)

SKU: 9781942173687

$22.00
Publisher: Common Notions
Author: Conor Tomás Reed
Publisher: Common Notions
ISBN: 9781942173687
Published: 05/2023
Format: Paperback
Size: 6 x 9
Page count: 256

In the 1960s and '70s–when Toni Cade Bambara, Samuel Delany, David Henderson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Guillermo Morales, Adrienne Rich, and Assata Shakur all studied and taught at CUNY–New York City's classrooms and streets radiated as epicenters of Black, Puerto Rican, queer, and women's liberation.

Conor Tomás Reed is part of the next generation of insurgent CUNY thinkers nourished by these legacies. Highlighting the decolonial feminist metamorphosis that transformed our educational landscape, New York Liberation School explores how study and movement coalesced across classrooms and neighborhoods. Reed’s immersive and wide-ranging narrative brings us into the archives and up close to the stories of its main participants in order to reactivate these vibrant histories. The result is a radiant reclamation of collective history that charts a vision for liberating education and society today.

“City University of New York has a very long history of making revolutionaries. It was a magnet for students and some faculty who recognized the indivisibility of the campus and the street, study and struggle. New York Liberation School turns to CUNY’s insurgent history to offer lessons for how we might remake higher education and the world.”
–Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
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