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Race

Margo Jefferson’s Coming of Age in Negroland

December 8, 2015 • by Vince Carducci

One of my fondest memories from the New School for Social Research Liberal Studies MA program comes from a course titled “Representations of Race and Gender in American Culture.” It was the day, about halfway through the semester, when co-teachers Elizabeth Kendall (author of feminist studies of <a ...

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Jonathan Schell Remembered

Letters from The New School for Social Research

March 31, 2014 • by James Miller and Elzbieta Matynia

Here are two remembrances of a distinguished colleague, Jonathan Schell, who died last Tuesday. Miller wrote his as a letter to the members of the Committee on Liberal Studies, where Schell once taught. Matynia’s is a remembrance of Schell’s public engagements as a writer and public actor, ...

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