Brian Jones
Student Fellow
Brian Jones is a doctoral candidate in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He studies black people’s educational struggles, past and present. Brian has contributed to several books, most recently What’s Race Got To Do With It? How Current School Reform Policy Maintains Racial and Economic Inequality (Peter Lang, 2015). He is currently writing about a student uprising at Tuskegee University in the late 1960s.
Participating Years
2016–2017
Consciousness and Revolution
The place of consciousness in radical theory and practice is a subject of significant dispute. Marx believed that much of what we construe as consciousness is “false,” a rationalization or an ideological reflex that stands between people and the “true material needs” of their life processes. Are consciousness and revolution mediated in the same ways today?