Reviews tagging 'Religious bigotry'

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones

4 reviews

tlaynejones's review

challenging emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Slavery, Medical trauma, Medical content, Murder, Religious bigotry, Xenophobia, Colonisation, Kidnapping, Classism, Police brutality, Rape, Genocide, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Gaslighting, Deportation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Forced institutionalization, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Violence, Sexual violence, and Torture

meganpbennett's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

Started as a special edition in the the New York Times to commemorate the 400 year anniversary of the first African captives sold against their will as chattel slaves in Virginia, the 1619 Projects aims to be the framework for critical race theory, which looks at American history and adds back in the truths previously deemed unnecessary and to remove various beliefs about slavery. It's a devastating and necessary read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Rape, Religious bigotry, Sexual assault, Sexism, Trafficking, Fire/Fire injury, Slavery, Vomit, Misogyny, Police brutality, Blood, Classism, Colonisation, Racism, Medical trauma, Gun violence, Death, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Murder, Physical abuse, and Racial slurs

amandasbookreview's review

challenging emotional informative tense medium-paced

5.0

“Until Americans replace mythology with history, until Americans unveil and halt the progression of racism, an arc of the American universe will keep bending toward injustice.”

THE 1619 PROJECT

I started The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones a couple months ago. Normally when I pick up a book I don’t pause. I don’t read other books in between. This book is a massive piece of journalism with more than one author. It is filled with primary sources and analyses the social, political, and economic injustices against Black Americans. So I read a section at a time, looked into the sources provided, and looked up the other contributing authors. The beginning introduces the arrival of enslaved Africans to Virginia in 1619. The publication date of this piece? –2019, 400 years after the first enslaved peoples arrived. The Pilgrims arrived in 1620. Just with the evidence of this date, The 1619 Project encourages the United States to review and acknowledge our history, not beginning with The Pilgrims but acknowledging the injustice laid on Black Americans and their contribution to our society in the face of slavery and racism that still exists today.

While Nikole Hannah-Jones developed this piece, it also has the contributions of several other authors, many of whose works I have read, and many of whose works that I need to read. The co-authors and contributors are Dorothy Roberts, Kahil Gibran Muhammad, Leslie Alexander, Michelle Alexander, Tiya Miles, Matthew Desmond, Jamelle Bouie, Martha S. Jones, Carol Anderson, Bryan Stevenson, Trymaine Lee, Linda Villarosa, Anthea Butler, Wesley Morris, Jeneen Interlandi, Kevin M. Kruse, Ibram K. Kendi, Jason Reynolds, Clint Smith, Sonia Sanchez, Gregory Pardlo, Kiese Laymon, Patricia Smith, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Joshua Bennet, Natasha Tretheway, Camille T. Dungy, Rita Dove, Terry McMillan, Danez Smith, A. Van Jordan, Jasmine Mans, Yaa Gyasi, Forrest Hamer, Evie Shockley, Tracey K. Smith, ZZ Packer, Darryl Pickney, Lynn Nottage, Cornelius Eady, Tim Siebles, Tyehimba Jess, Jesmyn Ward, Barry Jenkins, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Robert Jones Jr., Eve L. Ewing, Yusef Komunyakaa, Terrance Hayes, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Nikkey Finney, Vievee Francis, and Claudia Rankine.

This is not an opinion piece. This is history, the true history, that many would like to see ignored. There is fear in accepting the truth. So many have criticized this book without even reading it, without looking at the evidence, despite the fact that the evidence has always been there. This piece also draws parallels from the dawn of the revolution to today’s politics. It discusses racism, and the policies that freed the enslaved but made sure that they could not rise were kept down by segregation and were not given the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They discuss how law enforcement policies were actually inspired by Slave Patrols-units that were formed to hunt down runaway slaves. They discuss how the Black body is automatically seen as criminal and therefore more subject to imprisonment and execution. This piece discusses everything from traffic laws and how white people opposed the MARTA in Georgia. Systematic racism has been embedded in every aspect of our society.

But there is hope.

“If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us.”

THE 1619 PROJECT

The book concludes with what needs to be done in order to become the great nation that we claim to be. A great nation would acknowledge our history and make reparations and laws to atone for the injustice and make sure it never happens again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Child death, Cultural appropriation, Forced institutionalization, Torture, Colonisation, Gaslighting, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Police brutality, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Trafficking, Violence, Rape, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

purplepenning's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is definitely not the anti-American screed I was told to expect, and you should certainly read it. Maybe more than once. The audiobook is also excellent if you want to pump it directly into your ears.   

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Murder, Death, Torture, Racism, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Slavery, Violence, Hate crime, Trafficking, Medical trauma, and Grief

Moderate: Rape, Terminal illness, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Cultural appropriation, War, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Deadnaming, Death of parent, and Gaslighting