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Collection: Adult Nonfiction
Call Number: 973
Author: Hannah-Jones, Nikole
Title: The 1619 Project
Remainder of title: a new origin story
Summary, etc. note: "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"--

International Standard Book Number: 9780593230572
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Canceled/invalid ISBN: 9780593230589
Description conventions: rda
Authentication code: pcc
Geographic area code: n-us---
Classification number: E441
Item number: .A15 2021
Edition number: 23
Classification number: 973
Statement of responsibility, etc.: created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine.
Edition statement: First edition.
Place of publication: New York ,NY
Name of publisher: One World
Date of publication: 2021
Projected publication date: 2111
: New York :
: One World,
: [2021]
Extent: 590 pages. includes index
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General note: Includes index.
: Provided by publisher.
Source of acquisition: B & T 2/02/22
Purchase price: 38.00
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: 1619 Project.
Subject: Slavery
Subject: African-Americans
General subdivision: Political aspects
General subdivision: History.
General subdivision: History.
Geographic subdivision: United States
Geographic subdivision: United States
Geographic name: United States
Geographic name: United States
General subdivision: Race relations.
General subdivision: Civilization.
Personal name: Hannah-Jones, Nikole.
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: New York Times Company.
Edition: First edition.
Place, publisher, and date of publication: New York : One World, [2021]
Display text: Online version:
Title: 1619 Project
Record control number: (DLC) 2021019867
International Standard Book Number: 9780593230589
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