{"product_id":"the-1619-project-a-new-origin-story","title":"The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNikole Hannah-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter covering racial injustice for \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e and creator of the landmark 1619 Project. In 2017, she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, known as the Genius Grant, for her work on educational inequality. She has also won a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards, three National Magazine Awards, and the 2018 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2016, Hannah-Jones co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization geared toward increasing the number of investigative reporters of color. Hannah-Jones is the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she has founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy. In 2021, she was named one of \n\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 most influential people in the world. \n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe 1619 Project\u003c\/b\u003e is an ongoing initiative from \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e that began in August 2019, the four hundredth anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It is led by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, along with \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein and editors Ilena Silverman and Caitlin Roper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003ePREFACE by Nikole Hannah-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER ONE: Democracy by Nikole Hannah-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER TWO: The Creation of Race by Dorothy Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER THREE: Uprisings, Fear and Policing by Michelle and Leslie Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER FOUR: Second Amendment by Carol Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER FIVE: Native Americans and Slavery by Tiya Miles\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER SIX: The Roots of Capitalism by Matthew Desmond\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER SEVEN: Rule by Political Minority by Jamelle Bouie\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER SEVEN: Black Activism and Birthright Citizenship by Martha Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER EIGHT: Mass Incarceration by Bryan Stevenson\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER NINE: The Sugar Trade by Khalil Muhammad\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER TEN: The Wealth Gap by Trymaine Lee\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER ELEVEN: The Roots of Racial Health Disparities by Linda Villarosa\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER TWELVE: Music by Wesley Morris\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Black Church by Anthea Butler\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER FOURTEEN: Health Care by Jeneen Interlandi\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER FIFTEEN: Traffic by Kevin Kruse\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Myth of Progress by Ibram Kendi\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Economic Justice by Nikole Hannah-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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, \n\u003ci\u003eThe 1619 Project\u003c\/i\u003e brings the past to life in fresh ways. . . . Multifaceted and often brilliant.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The groundbreaking project from \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This fall's required reading.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . These bracing and urgent works, by multidisciplinary visionaries ranging from Barry Jenkins to Jesmyn Ward, build on the existing scholarship of \n\u003ci\u003eThe 1619 Project\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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, \n\u003ci\u003eThe 1619 Project\u003c\/i\u003e 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.'\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Women's Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Those readers open to fresh and startling interpretations of history will find this book a comprehensive education.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Powerful . . . This invaluable book sets itself apart by reframing readers' understanding of U.S. history, past and present.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e(starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"For any lover of American history or letters, \n\u003ci\u003eThe 1619 Project\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary work that casts a sweeping, introspective gaze over what many have aptly termed the country's original sin.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Readers will discover something new and redefining on every page.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"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\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Line\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWinner of the Pulitzer Prize; #1 New York Times bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e#1 \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER - A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, \u003ci\u003eThe 1619 Project: A New Origin Story\u003c\/i\u003e offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"[A] groundbreaking compendium . . . bracing and urgent . . . This collection is an extraordinary update to an ongoing project of vital truth-telling.\"--\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNOW AN EMMY-WINNING HULU ORIGINAL DOCUSERIES - A \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS \u003c\/i\u003eBEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY - AN \u003ci\u003eOPRAH DAILY \u003c\/i\u003eBEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES - FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE - ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR, \u003ci\u003eEsquire, Marie Claire, Electric Lit, Ms. \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews, Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e'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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFeaturing contributions from: \n\u003cb\u003e 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. 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