The 1619 Project : a new origin story / edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein.
Hannah-Jones, Nikole, creator, editor.; Roper, Caitlin, editor.; Silverman, Ilena, editor.; Silverstein, Jake, editor.; New York Times Company.
2021
E441 .A15 2021 (Mapit)
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Title
The 1619 Project : a new origin story / edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein.
Uniform Title
1619 Project (Hannah-Jones)
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780593230572 (hardcover)
9780753559536 (hardcover)
0593230574 (hardcover)
9780593230589 (electronic book)
0753559536 (hardcover)
Published
New York : One World, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
xxxiii, 590 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Item Number
40030845815
Call Number
E441 .A15 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
973
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."-- Provided by the publisher.
Note
"Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, & The New York Times magazine"--Book jacket.
"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."-- Provided by the publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-550) and index.
Added Author
Hannah-Jones, Nikole, creator, editor.
Roper, Caitlin, editor.
Silverman, Ilena, editor.
Silverstein, Jake, editor.
Added Corporate Author
New York Times Company.
Available in Other Form
1619 Project.
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Preface: Origins / by Nikole Hannah-Jones
The white lion / poem by Claudia Rankine
Chapter 1. Democracy / by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Daughters of azimuth / poem by Nikky Finney
Loving me / poem by Vievee Francis
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 / 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 / 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
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. 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 / 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 10. Punishment / by Bryan Stevenson
Race riot / poem by Forrest Hamer
Greenwood / poem by Jasmine Mans
Chapter 11. Inheritance / by Trymaine Lee
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 / 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 / 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
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. 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 Sonia Sanchez
Acknowledgments
Notes
Contributors
Credits
Index.

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