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Loading... The 1619 Project {The New York Times Magazine, August 18, 2019}by New York Times Magazine, Mary N. Elliott (Editor), Jazmine Hughes (Editor), The New York Times Magazine
   None No current Talk conversations about this book. Disappointing. The history sections were generally good but there were many repetitions. The fiction sections were pretty bad. (  ) Castinet | Dec 11, 2022 |  I printed the entire website out as a PDF and read it like a book. I don’t have a whole lot to say about this compilation of essays other than I learned so much and reading it gave me an incredible amount of information and opinions to ruminate on. My mind is reeling a bit from reading this and also at the same time from many of the recent news items related to George Floyd in Minneapolis and Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, GA. But there is also, of course, the usual detractors for this compilation with noted historians that wrote the NYT of inaccuracies in her journalism. Some of the most noted websites I read about this compilation are: These Black Scholars and Leaders Rebuke 1619 Project’s Narrative of Victimhood What Libertarian Overreactions to the 1619 Project Say About America Slavery In America Did Not Begin In 1619, And Other Things The New York Times Gets Wrong There is also a podcast on the same topic that I haven’t listened to yet but it’s on my queue. (  ) WellReadSoutherner | Apr 6, 2022 | This was well researched and presented. I'd go further than this author and say the modern western world exists as a result of West African chattel slavery. Colonialism can't be removed from it. It starts before 1492, about 50 yrs before and also can't ever be removed from capitalism. Ethical capitalism is like ethical slavery, a myth. So any semi positive references to capitalism are a reflection that this project doesn't go back far enough (  ) LoisSusan | Dec 10, 2020 | Slavery in the United States and its continuing impact on American society is the focus of this collection of essays. It’s supplemented and reinforced by poetic, literary, and artistic reflections by African American artists. While what happened before is the starting point for these insights, the emphasis is on how it is still shaping the way we do business and relate to each other. It accounts for how we live now, including racism, mass incarceration, poor dietary habits and traffic jams. It’s a sobering reflection on American History and our current civic life. ( )1  MaowangVater | Mar 4, 2020 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â?˘ A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post â?˘ NPR â?˘ Marie Claire In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the countryâ??s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States. The New York Times Magazineâ??s award-winning â??1619 Projectâ?ť issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This new book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day America with thirty-six poems and works of fiction that illuminate key moments of oppression, struggle, and resistance. The essays show how the inheritance of 1619 reaches into every part of contemporary American society, from politics, music, diet, traffic, and citizenship to capitalism, religion, and our democracy itself. This is a book that speaks directly to our current moment, contextualizing the systems of race and caste within which we operate today. It reveals long-glossed-over truths around our nationâ??s founding and constructionâ??and the way that the legacy of slavery did not end with emancipation, but continues to shape contemporary American life. Cover image: Lorna Simpson Beclouded, 2018 © Lorna Simpson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Read by a full cast, including: Nikole Hannah-Jones, January LaVoy, Claudia Rankine, Nikky Finney, Janina Edwards, Dorothy Roberts, Shayna Small, Terrance Hayes, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Yusef Komunyakaa, Eve L. Ewing, Karen Chilton, Aaron Goodson, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Erin Miles, Dominic Hoffman, Adenrele Ojo, Matthew Desmond, Tyehimba Jess, Tim Seibles, Jamelle Bouie, Cornelius Eady, Minka Wiltz, Martha S. Jones, Darryl Pinckney, ZZ Packer, Carol Anderson, Tracy K. Smith, Evie Shockley, Bryan Stevenson, William DeMeritt, Jasmine Mans, Trymaine Lee, A. Van Jordan, Yaa Gyasi, Linda Villarosa, Danez Smith, Terry McMillan, Anthea Butler, Rita Dove, Camille T. Dungy, Wesley Morris, Natasha Trethewey, Joshua Bennett, ChantĂ© McCormick, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Ron Butler, Kevin M. Kruse, Bahni Turpin, Gregory Pardlo, Ibram X. Kendi, JD Jackson, Jason R No library descriptions found. |
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