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- Summary
- "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 culture, from voting, housing and health care, 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 understand its powerful influence on our present, can we prepare ourselves for a more just future."--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxxiii, 590 pages
- Note
- "Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, & The New York Times magazine"--Book jacket
- Contents
-
- Daughters of azimuth
- by Wesley Morris
- Quotidian
- poem by Natasha Trethewey
- The panther is a virtual animal
- poem by Joshua Bennett
- Chapter 15.
- Healthcare
- by Jeneen Interlandi
- Unbought, unbossed, unbothered
- fiction by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- poem by Nikky Finney
- Crazy when you smile
- poem by Patricia Smith
- Chapter 16.
- Traffic
- by Kevin M. Kruse
- Rainbows aren't real, are they?
- fiction by Kiese Laymon
- A surname to honor their mother
- poem by Gregory Pardlo
- Chapter 17.
- Loving me
- Progress
- by Ibram X. Kendi
- At the Superdome after the storm has passed
- poem by Clint Smith
- Mother and son
- fiction by Jason Reynolds
- Chapter 18.
- Justice
- by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Progress report
- poem by Vievee Francis
- poem by Sonia Sanchez
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Contributors
- Credits
- Index
- Chapter 2.
- Race
- by Dorothy Roberts
- Conjured
- poem by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- A ghazalled sentence after "My people... Hold on" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740
- Preface:
- poem by Terrance Hayes
- Chapter 3.
- Sugar
- by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- First to rise
- poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Proof [dear Phillis]
- poem by Eve L. Ewing
- Chapter 4.
- Fear
- Origins
- by Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander
- Freedom is not for myself alone
- fiction by Robert Jones, Jr.
- Other persons
- poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Chapter 5.
- Dispossession
- by Tiya Miles
- Trouble the water
- fiction by Barry Jenkins
- by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Sold South
- fiction by Jesmyn Ward
- Chapter 6.
- Capitalism
- by Matthew Desmond
- Fort Mose
- poem by Tyehimba Jess
- Before his execution
- poem by Tim Seibles
- Chapter 7.
- The white lion
- Politics
- by Jamelle Bouie
- We as people
- poem by Cornelius Eady
- A letter to Harriet Hayden
- monologue by Lynn Nottage
- Chapter 8.
- Citizenship
- by Martha S. Jones
- The camp
- poem by Claudia Rankine
- fiction by Darryl Pinckney
- An absolute massacre
- fiction by ZZ Packer
- Chapter 9.
- Self-defense
- by Carol Anderson
- Like to the rushing of a mighty wind
- poem by Tracy K. Smith
- No car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails)
- poem by Evie Shockley
- Chapter 1.
- Chapter 10.
- Punishment
- by Bryan Stevenson
- Race riot
- poem by Forrest Hamer
- Greenwood
- poem by Jasmine Mans
- Chapter 11.
- Inheritance
- by Trymaine Lee
- Democracy
- The new Negro
- poem by A. Van Jordan
- Bad blood
- fiction by Yaa Gyasi
- Chapter 12.
- Medicine
- by Linda Villarosa
- 1955
- poem by Danez Smith
- From behind the counter
- by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- fiction by Terry McMillan
- Chapter 13.
- Church
- by Anthea Butler
- Youth Sunday
- poem by Rita Dove
- On "brevity"
- poem by Camille T. Dungy
- Chapter 14.
- Music
- Isbn
- 9780753559536
- Label
- The 1619 Project : a new origin story
- Title
- The 1619 Project
- Title remainder
- a new origin story
- Statement of responsibility
- edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein
- Title variation
-
- Sixteen Hundred Nineteen Project
- Sixteen Nineteen Project
- Subject
-
- 1619 Project
- 1619 Project
- 1619 Project
- African American
- African Americans
- African Americans
- African Americans
- African Americans -- History
- African Americans -- History
- African Americans -- Literary collections
- Civilization
- Enslavement
- Essais
- Essay
- Essays
- HISTORY / African American & Black
- HISTORY / United States / General
- History
- History, 17th Century
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Noirs américains
- Noirs américains -- Histoire
- Nouvelles
- Poetry
- Poetry
- Poésie
- Race Relations
- Race relations
- Racism
- Racism -- United States -- History
- Racism against Black people -- United States -- History
- Racisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
- Short stories
- Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History
- Slavery -- Political aspects
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- UNITED STATES
- United States
- United States
- United States -- Civilization
- United States -- Civilization
- United States -- Civilization | African American influences
- United States -- Race relations
- United States -- Race relations
- United States -- Race relations
- essays
- poetry
- short stories
- États-Unis -- Civilisation
- États-Unis -- Relations raciales
- Medicine -- History -- 17th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 culture, from voting, housing and health care, 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 understand its powerful influence on our present, can we prepare ourselves for a more just future."--
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- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- 1619 Project (Hannah-Jones)
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Hannah-Jones, Nikole
- Roper, Caitlin
- Silverman, Ilena
- Silverstein, Jake
- New York Times Company
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- 1619 Project
- 1619 Project
- 1619 Project
- 1619 Project
- Slavery
- Slavery
- African Americans
- Racism against Black people
- United States
- United States
- African Americans
- African Americans
- Medicine
- African Americans
- Racism
- Race Relations
- Enslavement
- History, 17th Century
- United States
- Noirs américains
- Racisme
- États-Unis
- États-Unis
- Noirs américains
- Médecine
- African American
- HISTORY / United States / General
- HISTORY / African American & Black
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
- African Americans
- Civilization
- Race relations
- Slavery
- United States
- UNITED STATES
- Slavery
- African Americans
- Racism
- United States
- United States
- Slavery
- African Americans
- United States
- United States
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The 1619 Project : a new origin story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein
- Note
- "Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, & The New York Times magazine"--Book jacket
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Daughters of azimuth
- by Wesley Morris
- Quotidian
- poem by Natasha Trethewey
- The panther is a virtual animal
- poem by Joshua Bennett
- Chapter 15.
- Healthcare
- by Jeneen Interlandi
- Unbought, unbossed, unbothered
- fiction by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- poem by Nikky Finney
- Crazy when you smile
- poem by Patricia Smith
- Chapter 16.
- Traffic
- by Kevin M. Kruse
- Rainbows aren't real, are they?
- fiction by Kiese Laymon
- A surname to honor their mother
- poem by Gregory Pardlo
- Chapter 17.
- Loving me
- Progress
- by Ibram X. Kendi
- At the Superdome after the storm has passed
- poem by Clint Smith
- Mother and son
- fiction by Jason Reynolds
- Chapter 18.
- Justice
- by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Progress report
- poem by Vievee Francis
- poem by Sonia Sanchez
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Contributors
- Credits
- Index
- Chapter 2.
- Race
- by Dorothy Roberts
- Conjured
- poem by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- A ghazalled sentence after "My people... Hold on" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740
- Preface:
- poem by Terrance Hayes
- Chapter 3.
- Sugar
- by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- First to rise
- poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Proof [dear Phillis]
- poem by Eve L. Ewing
- Chapter 4.
- Fear
- Origins
- by Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander
- Freedom is not for myself alone
- fiction by Robert Jones, Jr.
- Other persons
- poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Chapter 5.
- Dispossession
- by Tiya Miles
- Trouble the water
- fiction by Barry Jenkins
- by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Sold South
- fiction by Jesmyn Ward
- Chapter 6.
- Capitalism
- by Matthew Desmond
- Fort Mose
- poem by Tyehimba Jess
- Before his execution
- poem by Tim Seibles
- Chapter 7.
- The white lion
- Politics
- by Jamelle Bouie
- We as people
- poem by Cornelius Eady
- A letter to Harriet Hayden
- monologue by Lynn Nottage
- Chapter 8.
- Citizenship
- by Martha S. Jones
- The camp
- poem by Claudia Rankine
- fiction by Darryl Pinckney
- An absolute massacre
- fiction by ZZ Packer
- Chapter 9.
- Self-defense
- by Carol Anderson
- Like to the rushing of a mighty wind
- poem by Tracy K. Smith
- No car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails)
- poem by Evie Shockley
- Chapter 1.
- Chapter 10.
- Punishment
- by Bryan Stevenson
- Race riot
- poem by Forrest Hamer
- Greenwood
- poem by Jasmine Mans
- Chapter 11.
- Inheritance
- by Trymaine Lee
- Democracy
- The new Negro
- poem by A. Van Jordan
- Bad blood
- fiction by Yaa Gyasi
- Chapter 12.
- Medicine
- by Linda Villarosa
- 1955
- poem by Danez Smith
- From behind the counter
- by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- fiction by Terry McMillan
- Chapter 13.
- Church
- by Anthea Butler
- Youth Sunday
- poem by Rita Dove
- On "brevity"
- poem by Camille T. Dungy
- Chapter 14.
- Music
- Control code
- 1250435664
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxxiii, 590 pages
- Isbn
- 9780753559536
- Lccn
- 2021019866
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 505
- Other control number
- 40030845815
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1250435664
- Label
- The 1619 Project : a new origin story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein
- Note
- "Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, & The New York Times magazine"--Book jacket
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
-
- text
- still image
- Content type code
-
- txt
- sti
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Daughters of azimuth
- by Wesley Morris
- Quotidian
- poem by Natasha Trethewey
- The panther is a virtual animal
- poem by Joshua Bennett
- Chapter 15.
- Healthcare
- by Jeneen Interlandi
- Unbought, unbossed, unbothered
- fiction by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
- poem by Nikky Finney
- Crazy when you smile
- poem by Patricia Smith
- Chapter 16.
- Traffic
- by Kevin M. Kruse
- Rainbows aren't real, are they?
- fiction by Kiese Laymon
- A surname to honor their mother
- poem by Gregory Pardlo
- Chapter 17.
- Loving me
- Progress
- by Ibram X. Kendi
- At the Superdome after the storm has passed
- poem by Clint Smith
- Mother and son
- fiction by Jason Reynolds
- Chapter 18.
- Justice
- by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Progress report
- poem by Vievee Francis
- poem by Sonia Sanchez
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Contributors
- Credits
- Index
- Chapter 2.
- Race
- by Dorothy Roberts
- Conjured
- poem by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- A ghazalled sentence after "My people... Hold on" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740
- Preface:
- poem by Terrance Hayes
- Chapter 3.
- Sugar
- by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- First to rise
- poem by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Proof [dear Phillis]
- poem by Eve L. Ewing
- Chapter 4.
- Fear
- Origins
- by Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander
- Freedom is not for myself alone
- fiction by Robert Jones, Jr.
- Other persons
- poem by Reginald Dwayne Betts
- Chapter 5.
- Dispossession
- by Tiya Miles
- Trouble the water
- fiction by Barry Jenkins
- by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- Sold South
- fiction by Jesmyn Ward
- Chapter 6.
- Capitalism
- by Matthew Desmond
- Fort Mose
- poem by Tyehimba Jess
- Before his execution
- poem by Tim Seibles
- Chapter 7.
- The white lion
- Politics
- by Jamelle Bouie
- We as people
- poem by Cornelius Eady
- A letter to Harriet Hayden
- monologue by Lynn Nottage
- Chapter 8.
- Citizenship
- by Martha S. Jones
- The camp
- poem by Claudia Rankine
- fiction by Darryl Pinckney
- An absolute massacre
- fiction by ZZ Packer
- Chapter 9.
- Self-defense
- by Carol Anderson
- Like to the rushing of a mighty wind
- poem by Tracy K. Smith
- No car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails)
- poem by Evie Shockley
- Chapter 1.
- Chapter 10.
- Punishment
- by Bryan Stevenson
- Race riot
- poem by Forrest Hamer
- Greenwood
- poem by Jasmine Mans
- Chapter 11.
- Inheritance
- by Trymaine Lee
- Democracy
- The new Negro
- poem by A. Van Jordan
- Bad blood
- fiction by Yaa Gyasi
- Chapter 12.
- Medicine
- by Linda Villarosa
- 1955
- poem by Danez Smith
- From behind the counter
- by Nikole Hannah-Jones
- fiction by Terry McMillan
- Chapter 13.
- Church
- by Anthea Butler
- Youth Sunday
- poem by Rita Dove
- On "brevity"
- poem by Camille T. Dungy
- Chapter 14.
- Music
- Control code
- 1250435664
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxxiii, 590 pages
- Isbn
- 9780753559536
- Lccn
- 2021019866
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Note
- WorldCat record variable field(s) change: 505
- Other control number
- 40030845815
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1250435664
Subject
- 1619 Project
- 1619 Project
- 1619 Project
- African American
- African Americans
- African Americans
- African Americans
- African Americans -- History
- African Americans -- History
- African Americans -- Literary collections
- Civilization
- Enslavement
- Essais
- Essay
- Essays
- HISTORY / African American & Black
- HISTORY / United States / General
- History
- History, 17th Century
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 17e siècle
- Noirs américains
- Noirs américains -- Histoire
- Nouvelles
- Poetry
- Poetry
- Poésie
- Race Relations
- Race relations
- Racism
- Racism -- United States -- History
- Racism against Black people -- United States -- History
- Racisme -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
- Short stories
- Slavery -- Economic aspects -- United States -- History
- Slavery -- Political aspects
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- Slavery -- Political aspects -- United States -- History
- UNITED STATES
- United States
- United States
- United States -- Civilization
- United States -- Civilization
- United States -- Civilization | African American influences
- United States -- Race relations
- United States -- Race relations
- United States -- Race relations
- essays
- poetry
- short stories
- États-Unis -- Civilisation
- États-Unis -- Relations raciales
- Medicine -- History -- 17th century
Genre
- Poésie
- essays
- poetry
- short stories
- Literary collections
- History
- Essays
- Essais
- Essay
- Nouvelles
- Poetry
- Short stories
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