The 1619 Project : a new origin story / edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hannah-Jones, Nikole, creator, editor.

Roper, Caitlin, editor.

Silverman, Ilena, editor.

Silverstein, Jake, editor.

New York Times Company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History.

Slavery.

African Americans--History.

African Americans.

History.

Slavery--Political aspects.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

United States--Civilization.

Civilization.

1619 Project.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 590 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Sixteen hundred nineteen Project

Place of Publication:

New York : One World, [2021]

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 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 understand its powerful influence on our present, can we prepare ourselves for a more just future"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1619 The White Lion / Claudia Rankine

ch. 1 Democracy / Nikole Hannah-Jones

1662 Daughters of Azimuth / Nikky Finney

1682 Loving Me / Vievee Francis

ch. 2 Race / Dorothy Roberts

1731 Conjured / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

1740 A Ghazalled Sentence After "My People Hold On" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740 / Terrance Hayes

ch. 3 Sugar / Khalil Gibran Muhammad

1770 First to Rise / Yusef Komunyakaa

1773 proof [dear Phillis] / Eve L. Ewing

ch. 4 Fear / Michelle Alexander

1775 Freedom Is Not for Myself Alone / Robert Jones Jr.

1791 Other Persons / Reginald Dwayne Betts

ch. 5 Dispossession / Tiya Miles

1800 Trouble the Water / Barry Jenkins

1808 Sold South / Jesmyn Ward

ch. 6 Capitalism / Matthew Desmond

1816 Fort Mose / Tyehimba Jess

1822 Before His Execution / Tim Seibles

ch. 7 Politics / Jamelle Bouie

1830 We as People / Cornelius Eady

1850 A Letter to Harriet Hay den / Lynn Nottage

ch. 8 Citizenship / Martha S. Jones

1863 The Camp / Darryl Pinckney

1866 An Absolute Massacre / Zz Packer

ch. 9 Self-Defense / Carol Anderson

1870 Like to the Rushing of a Mighty Wind / Tracy K. Smith

1883 no car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails) / Evie Shockley

ch. 10 Punishment / Bryan Stevenson

1898 Race Riot / Forrest Hamer

1921 Greenwood / Jasmine Mans

ch. 11 Inheritance / Trymaine Lee

1925 The New Negro / A. Van Jordan

1932 Bad Blood / Yaa Gyasi

ch. 12 Medicine / Linda Villarosa

1955 1955 / Danez Smith

1960 From Behind the Counter / Terry Mcmillan

ch. 13 Church / Anthea Butler

1963 Youth Sunday / Rita Dove

1963 On "Brevity" / Camille T. Dungy

ch. 14 Music / Wesley Morris

1965 Quotidian / Natasha Trethewey

1966 The Panther Is a Virtual Animal / Joshua Bennett

ch. 15 Healthcare / Jeneen Interlandi

1972 Unbought, Unbossed, Unbothered / Nafissa Thompson-Spires

1974 Crazy When You Smile / Patricia Smith

ch. 16 Traffic / Kevin M. Kruse

1984 Rainbows Aren't Real, Are They? / Kiese Laymon

1985 A Surname to Honor Their Mother / Gregory Pardlo

ch. 17 PrOgreSS / Ibram X. Kendi

2005 At the Superdome After the Storm Has Passed / Clint Smith

2008 Mother and Son / Jason Reynolds

ch. 18 Justice / Nikole Hannah-Jones

2020 Progress Report / Sonia Sanchez.

Notes:

"Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, & The New York Times magazine"--Book jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-550) and index.

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Image Awards Outstanding Literary Work - Nonfiction, Winner, 2022

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Kennedy fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: 1619 Project

ISBN:

9780593230572

0593230574

OCLC:

1250435664