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Biographical Note: Table of Contents: PREFACE by Nikole Hannah-Jones CHAPTER ONE: Democracy by Nikole Hannah-Jones CHAPTER TWO: The Creation of Race by Dorothy Roberts CHAPTER THREE: Uprisings, Fear and Policing by Michelle and Leslie Alexander CHAPTER FOUR: Second Amendment by Carol Anderson CHAPTER FIVE: Native Americans and Slavery by Tiya Miles CHAPTER SIX: The Roots of Capitalism by Matthew Desmond CHAPTER SEVEN: Rule by Political Minority by Jamelle Bouie CHAPTER SEVEN: Black Activism and Birthright Citizenship by Martha Jones CHAPTER EIGHT: Mass Incarceration by Bryan Stevenson CHAPTER NINE: The Sugar Trade by Khalil Muhammad CHAPTER TEN: The Wealth Gap by Trymaine Lee CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Roots of Racial Health Disparities by Linda Villarosa CHAPTER TWELVE: Music by Wesley Morris CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Black Church by Anthea Butler CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Health Care by Jeneen Interlandi CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Traffic by Kevin Kruse CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Myth of Progress by Ibram Kendi CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Economic Justice by Nikole Hannah-Jones Review Quotes: "Pleasingly symmetrical . . . [a] mosaic of a book, which achieves the impossible on so many levels--moving from argument to fiction to argument, from theme to theme, and backward and forward in time, so smoothly." --Slate "A wide-ranging, landmark summary of the Black experience in America: searing, rich in unfamiliar detail, exploring every aspect of slavery and its continuing legacy . . . Again and again, The 1619 Project brings the past to life in fresh ways. . . . Multifaceted and often brilliant." --The New York Times Book Review "The groundbreaking project from The New York Times, which created a new origin story for America based on the very beginnings of American slavery, is expanded into a very large, very powerful full-length book." --Entertainment Weekly "The ambitious project that got Americans rethinking our racial history--and sparked inevitable backlash--even before the reckoning that followed George Floyd's murder, is expanded into a book incorporating essays from pretty much everyone you want to hear from about the country's great topic and great shame." --Los Angeles Times "This fall's required reading." --Ms. "[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . These bracing and urgent works, by multidisciplinary visionaries ranging from Barry Jenkins to Jesmyn Ward, build on the existing scholarship of The 1619 Project, exploring how the nation's original sin continues to shape everything from our music to our food to our democracy. This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling." --Esquire "By teaching how the country's history has been one of depriving the rights of one group for the gain of another, and how those marginalized worked to claim those rights for all, The 1619 Project restores people erased from the national narrative, offering a motivating, if sobering, origin story we need to understand if we are ever going to truly achieve 'liberty and justice for all.'" --Women's Review of Books "Those readers open to fresh and startling interpretations of history will find this book a comprehensive education." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Powerful . . . This invaluable book sets itself apart by reframing readers' understanding of U.S. history, past and present." --Library Journal (starred review) "Pulitzer winner Hannah-Jones . . . and an impressive cast of historians, journalists, poets, novelists, and cultural critics deliver a sweeping study of the 'unparalleled impact' of African slavery on American society." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "For any lover of American history or letters, The 1619 Project is a visionary work that casts a sweeping, introspective gaze over what many have aptly termed the country's original sin." --BookPage (starred review) "Readers will discover something new and redefining on every page." --Booklist (starred review) Brief Description: "The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country's very origin. The 1619 Project tells this new origin story, placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. Orchestrated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by MacArthur 'genius' and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, this collection of essays and historical vignettes includes some of the most outstanding journalists, thinkers, and scholars of American history and culture--including Linda Villarosa, Jamelle Bouie, Jeneen Interlandi, Matthew Desmond, Wesley Morris, and Bryan Stevenson. Together, their work shows how the tendrils of 1619--of slavery and resistance to slavery--reach into every part of our contemporary culutre, from voting, housing and healthcare, to the way we sing and dance, the way we tell stories, and the way we worship. Interstitial works of flash fiction and poetry bring the history to life through the imaginative interpretations of some of our greatest writers. The 1619 Project ultimately sends a very strong message: We must have a clear vision of this history if we are to understand our present dilemmas. Only by reckoning with this difficult history and trying as hard as we can to undersand its powerful influence on our present, can we prepare ourselves for a more just future"-- Reading Line: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize; #1 New York Times bestseller Publisher Marketing: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - 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. "[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling."--Esquire NOW AN EMMY-WINNING HULU ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES - A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY - AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES - FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Marie Claire, Electric Lit, Ms. magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty people stolen 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 country'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 Magazine's award-winning 1619 Project issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This 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 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 nation's founding and construction--and the way that the legacy of slavery did not end with emancipation, but continues to shape contemporary American life. Featuring contributions from: Leslie Alexander - Michelle Alexander - Carol Anderson - Joshua Bennett - Reginald Dwayne Betts - Jamelle Bouie - Anthea Butler - Matthew Desmond - Rita Dove - Camille T. Dungy - Cornelius Eady - Eve L. Ewing - Nikky Finney - Vievee Francis - Yaa Gyasi - Forrest Hamer - Terrance Hayes - Kimberly Annece Henderson - Jeneen Interlandi - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - Barry Jenkins - Tyehimba Jess - Martha S. Jones - Robert Jones, Jr. - A. Van Jordan - Ibram X. Kendi - Eddie Kendricks - Yusef Komunyakaa - Kevin M. Kruse - Kiese Laymon - Trymaine Lee - Jasmine Mans - Terry McMillan - Tiya Miles - Wesley Morris - Khalil Gibran Muhammad - Lynn Nottage - ZZ Packer - Gregory Pardlo - Darryl Pinckney - Claudia Rankine - Jason Reynolds - Dorothy Roberts - Sonia Sanchez - Tim Seibles - Evie Shockley - Clint Smith - Danez Smith - Patricia Smith - Tracy K. Smith - Bryan Stevenson - Nafissa Thompson-Spires - Natasha Trethewey - Linda Villarosa - Jesmyn Ward Review Citations:
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Author: Hannah-Jones, Nikole
Publisher: One World
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: 2021-11-16
BISAC: History|United States|General|History|African American & Black|Social Science|Cultural & Ethnic Studies|African American & Black Studies
Subjects: Slavery|Political aspects|United States|History|African-Americans|Race relations|Civilization
Weight: 2.04 lbs
ISBN: 9780593230572
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9780593230572
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
$48.00