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Benedict Fernandez taught in the New School’s photography department in the 1960’s. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Benedict Fernandez, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" Benedict J Fernandez's "In Opposition: Images of American Dissent in the Sixties" is a kind of pictorial primer of protest, both for and against whatever the cause-Vietnam, fair housing, white or black power , student sit ins. "
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Eric Hobsbawm was a British Marxist Historian who taught at the New School of Social Research. You can read about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Eric Hobsbawm, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" Eric Hobsbawm’s death last year robbed us of the last of that generation of Marxist scholars who did so much to transform the writing of history in the 1950s and 1960s – and in Hobsbawm’s case into the first decade of this century. There have been many tributes. "
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" The Bureau for Intercultural Education was the brainchild of a young school teacher, Rachel Davis DuBois. Over its twenty-year history from 1934-1954, the Bureau attempted to understand the "problem of the second generation"- i.e., children of immigrants-and offered a vision of an intercultural nation tolerant of diverse peoples. "
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" Sondra Farganis, chairwoman of the social sciences at the New School for Social Research in New York City supports the importance of popular culture as a course of study . She also believes it belongs in the sociology or history departments. "
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" One of the most striking features of the cities of the Middle East and North Africa, certainly during medieval times but to some extent persisting feebly to this day in the older residential quarters, is its subdivision into smaller quarters whose approximate boundaries remain relatively constant over time and whose names continue to be employed as important referential terms, even when they do not appear on modern markers of street names, etc. "
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" What kind of man, then, does our society need in order to function smoothly? It needs men who co-operate easily in large groups, who want to consume more and more, and whose tastes are standardized and can be easily influenced and anticipated. "
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The diverse and experienced members of the IRP have backgrounds in the sciences, arts, business, academia, law and more. They support objectives of the New School through a variety of volunteer endeavors. This energetic, committed group reaches beyond the IRP’s core of developing and participating in the 30+ Study Groups each semester. IRP members enthusiastically […]