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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by New York Times Company, Nikole Hannah-Jones
31 reviews
lrm11's review against another edition
3.5
Graphic: Sexual assault and Violence
lilacs_book_bower's review
4.25
Graphic: Colonisation, Genocide, Slavery, Trafficking, Cultural appropriation, Classism, Grief, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Racism, Sexual assault, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Gun violence, and Sexual violence
xwritingstoriesx's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Colonisation, Death, Grief, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Murder, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Slavery, Violence, Police brutality, and Racism
hunkydory's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Racial slurs, Death, Hate crime, Murder, Racism, Slavery, Violence, and Police brutality
andsoitgoes's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Classism, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Violence, Racism, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Police brutality, Sexual assault, and Rape
Moderate: Kidnapping
audreylee's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Slavery, Racism, and Violence
mysterymom40's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Rape, Sexual violence, Racism, Violence, Death, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Torture, Slavery, Racial slurs, Physical abuse, and Bullying
Moderate: Police brutality, Child death, Colonisation, and Forced institutionalization
kimveach's review
4.5
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: 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
afreeby's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Police brutality, Classism, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Slavery, Murder, Sexism, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexual violence, Medical content, and Death
lettuce_read's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Slavery, Racial slurs, and Racism
Moderate: Rape, Sexual violence, and Violence