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.

Collected Work

The Tuskegee Student Uprising: A History

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Drawing upon years of archival research and interviews with former students, professors, and administrators, Brian Jones provides an in-depth account of one of the most dynamic student movements in United States history. The book takes the reader through Tuskegee students’ process of transformation and intellectual awakening as they stepped off campus to make unique contributions to southern movements for democracy and civil rights in the 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?