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

3 reviews

madamenovelist's review against another edition

challenging dark informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Child death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Torture, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Essential reading for anyone and everyone in order to understand America, American history, and present-day problems America faces.

kimveach's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

A book blogger suggested that this is a great audiobook. I'm afraid I have to disagree. The authors read the essays; unfortunately, not all authors are great narrators. The performances of the poems would be the exception. After nearly falling asleep while driving the car, I decided to try reading it another way. Thankfully, Kindle had a sale that included both the written and audio versions of the book.

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."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gore, Murder, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Trafficking, Blood, Confinement, Deportation, Gun violence, Hate crime, Medical trauma, Forced institutionalization, Rape, Violence, Classism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Death of parent, Grief, Police brutality, Racial slurs, and War

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