New York Liberation School: Study and Movement with CUNY’s Legacies

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

Present and former CUNY educators will discuss the 2023 book New York Liberation School, which chronicles the rise of Black, Puerto Rican, and Women’s Studies and movements in CUNY and New York City, with a particular focus on Toni Cade Bambara, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, and Assata Shakur. We will weave together these institutional/interpersonal histories with themes that animate our respective research on Black and Third World feminist coalitions, radical literacy, militarism, and dreaming/enacting future liberatory worlds.

Sub Unit

• General Conference

Presenters

• Conor Tomás Reed, CUNY Graduate Center, Free CUNY, Rank and File Action

• Ariane Vani Kannan, Emory University

• Carmen Kynard, Texas Christian University

• Anna Zeemont, SUNY Buffalo

• Marianne Madoré, The Graduate Center, City University of New York