Research Catalog

Title

The 1619 project.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : New York Times, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hannah-Jones, Nikole
• Elliott, Mary (Mary N.)
• New York Times Company.
• Smithsonian Institution.

Found In

Contained in (manifestation): New York times magazine 0362-1308 (DLC) 76640207 (OCoLC)1054219414

Description

98 pages : illustrations; 28 cm +

Summary

The goal of The 1619 Project is to reframe American history by making explicit how slavery is the foundation on which the United States of America is built, and by considering what it would mean to regard 1619 as the nation's birth year. By placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of black Americans at the very center of the story citizens tell of themselves and about who they are as a country, the hope is to paint a fuller picture of the institution that shaped the nation. The project consists of essays on different aspects of contemporary American life, from mass incarceration to rush-hour traffic, that have their roots in slavery and its aftermath. Alongside the essays are 17 original literary works that bring to life key moments in African-American history over the past 400 years, and a special section from the New York Times newspaper on the history of slavery made in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution.

Uniform Title

New York times magazine. August 18, 2019.

Alternative Title

• New York Times magazine, August 18, 2019 : the 1619 project
• 1619
• In August of 1619, a ship appeared on this horizon, near Point Comfort, a coastal port in the British colony of Virginia ...
• We've got to tell the unvarnished truth ...

Subjects

• African Americans
• Slavery
• Race discrimination
• Racism
• African Americans > Virginia > History > 17th century
• African Americans > History
• Race discrimination > United States > History
• Slavery > United States > History
• United States > History
• Slavery > Virginia > History > 17th century
• Racism > United States > History
• Virginia > History
• History
• 1600-1699

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Special issue.

Contents

Editor's note and introduction / Jake Silverstein -- The idea of America / Nikole Hannah-Jones -- Chained migration: how slavery made its way west / Tiya Miles -- Middle Passage / Clint Smith -- Crispus Attucks / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Capitalism / Matthew Desmond -- Mortgaging the future: the North-South rift led to a piecemeal system of bank regulation - with dangerous consequences / Mehrsa Baradaran -- Good as gold: in Lincoln's wartime "greenbacks," a preview of the 20th century rise of fiat currency / Mehrsa Baradaran -- Fabric of modernity: how Southern cotton became the cornerstone of a new global commodities trade / Mehrsan Baradaran -- Municipal bonds: how slavery built Wall Street / Tiya Miles -- Phillis Wheatley / Eve L. Ewing -- Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 / Reginald Dwayne Betts -- A broken health care system / Jeneen Interlandi -- Gabriel's Rebellion / Barry Jenkins -- Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves / Jesmyn Ward -- Traffic / Kevin M. Kruse -- Undemocratic democracy / Jamelle Bouie -- Medical inequality / Linda Villarosa -- Black Seminoles / Tyehimba Jess -- Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 / Darryl Pinckney -- New Orleans massacre of 1866 / ZZ Packer -- American popular music / Wesley Morris -- Tuskegee syphilis experiment / Yaa Gyasi -- Sgt. Isaac Woodard / Jacqueline Woodson -- Sugar / Khalil Gibran Muhammad -- Pecan pioneer: the enslaved man who cultivated the South's favorite nut / Tiya Miles -- 16th Street Baptist Church bombing / Rita Dove and Camille T. Dungy -- Black Panther Party / Joshua Bennett -- Mass incarceration / Bryan Stevenson-- The wealth gap / Trymaine Lee -- The birth of hip-hop / Lynn Nottage -- Rev. Jesse Jackson's "rainbow coalition" speech / Kiese Laymon -- Superdome after Hurricane Katrina / Clint Smith -- Hope : a photo essay / Djeneba Aduayom -- Shadow of the past / Anne C. Bailey -- Why can't we teach this / Nikita Stewart -- No. 1. Slavery, power and the human cost, 1455-1775 -- No. 2. The limits of freedom, 1776-1808 -- No. 3. A slave nation fights for freedom, 1809-1865.

Call Number

Sc+ I 21-1

OCLC

1113868021

Title

The 1619 project.

Publisher

New York, N.Y. : New York Times, 2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Connect to:

Full text online available via the Pulitzer Center web site

Online version

Chronological Term

1600-1699

Added Author

Hannah-Jones, Nikole, editor, author.

Elliott, Mary (Mary N.), editor.

New York Times Company.

Smithsonian Institution.

Added Title

New York times magazine. August 18, 2019.

Supplement To:

Contained in (work): New York times magazine 0028-7822 (DLC)sn 78005343 (OCoLC)1760221

Found In:

Contained in (manifestation): New York times magazine 0362-1308 (DLC) 76640207 (OCoLC)1054219414

Research Call Number

Sc+ I 21-1