AAUP-TNS builds on a long and rich history of organizing at The New School. You can read about some of it here.

Graduates working at The New School’s Archives and Special Collections speak about their research into student activism at our institution.

In 1948 William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) Du Bois developed his course on “The Negro in American History” for The New School—the first at a white university. You can read his writings on the course, archived at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, along with his short lecture plan.

We teach, learn, and conduct research in a world of social and political struggle, past and present. Recent uprisings against racial injustice in the summer of 2020 prompt a return to the lectures and discussions of bell hooks’ who offers us radical insight and guidance. Consult the films of her lectures and discussions at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts between 2013 and 2015.

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