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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by New York Times Company, Nikole Hannah-Jones
12 reviews
deadeye's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief, Cultural appropriation, War, Torture, Slavery, Sexual violence, Sexual assault, Sexism, Rape, Racism, Racial slurs, Police brutality, Physical abuse, Murder, Misogyny, Mental illness, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Hate crime, Gun violence, Genocide, Emotional abuse, Death, Colonisation, Classism, Confinement, Chronic illness, Child death, Child abuse, and Cancer
mmccombs's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
3.5
This was kind of a mixed bag for me, but I think on the whole this is a very strong introductory piece to relearning and questioning the mythology that surrounds the US’s founding and history. I enjoyed the way it was organized and how approachable it is, I was spooked looking at the size of it thinking it’d read like a textbook. But the writing was clear and the connecting links between all of its chapters were strong.
However, I often felt like chapters were missing things and that some were just weaker than others. I also noticed some glaring absences especially when thinking about these issues through an intersectional lens. There’s a lot of focus on Black men, less focus on women, and basically no acknowledgement of LGBTQ+ folks, disabled people, Afro-Indigenous people, and many other intersections, which I felt weakened some of this work’s thesis. Personally, I also kept waiting for the book to make that extra push towards critically addressing capitalism, class, and abolition, but that might just be beyond the scope of this project (I also think that by framing slavery as the foundation of the US, rather than capitalism, would produce this [fairly simplistic] work. I think that’s the point, but I would have loved to have seen these authors make a much clearer link between the two. Cause without one I don’t think you’d have the other in the US). I think I’d recommend this as an intro to understanding the current impacts of slavery on the US, but I do think there are other books/authors who approach this general theme with a more critical, nuanced, and deep angle.
However, I often felt like chapters were missing things and that some were just weaker than others. I also noticed some glaring absences especially when thinking about these issues through an intersectional lens. There’s a lot of focus on Black men, less focus on women, and basically no acknowledgement of LGBTQ+ folks, disabled people, Afro-Indigenous people, and many other intersections, which I felt weakened some of this work’s thesis. Personally, I also kept waiting for the book to make that extra push towards critically addressing capitalism, class, and abolition, but that might just be beyond the scope of this project (I also think that by framing slavery as the foundation of the US, rather than capitalism, would produce this [fairly simplistic] work. I think that’s the point, but I would have loved to have seen these authors make a much clearer link between the two. Cause without one I don’t think you’d have the other in the US). I think I’d recommend this as an intro to understanding the current impacts of slavery on the US, but I do think there are other books/authors who approach this general theme with a more critical, nuanced, and deep angle.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Slavery, and Violence
Moderate: Medical trauma
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