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Social Research

Hospitality, The New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal introduces its latest issue

May 17, 2022 • by
The current issue of Social Research on hospitality, a subject that is intimately connected to that of xenophobia, was inspired by the compelling and fruitful suggestions of my friend and colleague, Polish philosopher Tomasz Kitlinski. It is a subject that lies at the heart of many of the problems besetting ...
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Hospitality, The New Issue of Social Research
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Singing America’s Racial History

A conversation with historian Emily Bingham about Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home”

May 6, 2022 • by and
May 7, 2022, is the 148th running of the Kentucky Derby, nicknamed “The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports.” Before these three-year-old thoroughbreds burst out of the starting gate, thousands of people will don elaborate hats, drink mint juleps, and—right before the race, accompanied by the University of Louisville marching band—sing Steven ...
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Singing America’s Racial History
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The Nitty-Gritty of Craft

A conversation with writer Mychal Denzel Smith

April 20, 2022 • by and
“Coming off of a decade or so—oh God, this year marks 12 years since I first published—of thinking about the worst things that happened to Black people in the United States, I just wanted some pleasure in my life,” says writer Mychal Denzel Smith from his balcony in Brooklyn. Smith’s most recent ...
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The Nitty-Gritty of Craft
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Does Time Pass or, Do We Pass the Time?

Lisa Hsiao Chen explores what it is that keeps us going

April 13, 2022 • by and
Lisa Hsiao Chen’s Activities of Daily Living examines the interconnections between work and life, loneliness and kinship, and the projects that occupy our time. Moving between present-day and 1980s New York City, with detours to Silicon Valley and the Venice Biennale, this is a vivid, and tender examination of the ...
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Does Time Pass or, Do We Pass the Time?
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Dismantling Truths About Emerging Adulthood

A conversation with Rainesford Stauffer: Breaking down the structural challenges behind living your #BestLife

April 12, 2022 • by and
We need a really radical re-imagining of, not just how we think about young adulthood, but how we move through our lives and where we find value. I would want people to know that this myth of young adulthood is not your individual burden. Doing the best you can within ...
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Dismantling Truths About Emerging Adulthood
Social Research

The Global Rise of Xenophobia, the New Issue of Social Research

The New School journal unveils its latest issue

March 30, 2022 • by
The rise of Xenophobia, globally, has unfortunately become increasingly virulent. The latest issue of Social Research, through a set of case studies, draws connections between the personal and the political with contributions from Marci Shore, Erika Lee, Bálint Madlovics, Irena Grudzińska Gross, Sina Arnold, Jocelyne Cesari, Mehmet Kurt, Munawwar Abdulla ...
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Phillis Wheatley’s Lost Years

She didn’t go far from Boston, but a keen-eyed historian glimpsed her in the archive—and that find opens up a door to both the poet’s marriage and the final years of slavery in Massachusetts

March 16, 2022 • by and
In September 2021, University of Connecticut historian Cornelia Dayton broke the news that three “lost” years of African American poet Phillis Wheatley had been accounted for: the first three years of her marriage to John Peters, a free Black New Englander who she married in 1780. In an article published ...
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Phillis Wheatley’s Lost Years
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Solitary

In the face of utter despair that goes with solitary confinement, tiny red ants are the only sign of hope

February 23, 2022 • by
Focus. I pull my thoughts back from the edge of the abyss. You have to keep your mind on a short leash in this place—that is, you must rein it in when you feel it slipping, or risk losing it altogether. Strange things happen to minds here. Weak minds break ...
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Solitary
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The University Ate My Neighborhood

A conversation with urbanist and cultural historian Davarian L. Baldwin, author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

February 15, 2022 • by and
Claire Potter sat down with urbanist Davarian L. Baldwin to discuss his new book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities (Bold Type Books, 2021), to hash out what these relationships do to reshape our cities....

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The University Ate My Neighborhood
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