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Graphic: Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Colonisation
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Colonisation, Classism, Deportation
Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Murder, War
Themes: 4.5 stars
Perspective: 4.5 stars
Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Colonisation, War
Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Classism
Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Murder, Colonisation
Graphic: Death, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, Murder
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism
The essays are enlightening and contain the history I wish I had learned in school.
While there have been criticisms, I feel this New York Times response best describes the purpose of the book. "The very premise of The 1619 Project, in fact, is that many of the inequalities that continue to afflict the nation are a direct result of the unhealed wound created by 250 years of slavery and an additional century of second-class citizenship and white-supremacist terrorism inflicted on black people (together, those two periods account for 88 percent of our history since 1619). These inequalities were the starting point of our project — the facts that, to take just a few examples, black men are nearly six times as likely to wind up in prison as white men, or that black women are three times as likely to die in childbirth as white women, or that the median family wealth for white people is $171,000, compared with just $17,600 for black people. The rampant discrimination that black people continue to face across nearly every aspect of American life suggests that neither the framework of the Constitution nor the strenuous efforts of political leaders in the past and the present, both white and black, has yet been able to achieve the democratic ideals of the founding for all Americans."
Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Trafficking, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, War, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Deportation