The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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Reframing America’s founding, this landmark collection begins in late August 1619, when the arrival of enslaved Africans in Virginia set in motion a system of chattel slavery that shaped the nation for centuries. Through essays, historical vignettes, and interstitial flash fiction and poetry, it traces how slavery and Black resistance extend into the present—touching politics, housing, health, culture, and the stories people tell about belonging. The book’s central themes—historical truth, inherited inequality, and the enduring power of community and creativity—are explored by a chorus of acclaimed journalists, scholars, and writers. In Nikole Hannah-Jones’s signature, urgent narrative style, the result is both a rigorous reexamination of origins and a call to confront the past in order to imagine a more just future.
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hardcover
One World
Published Nov 16, 2021
400 pages
ISBN: 9780593230572
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First Published
2021
Language
eng
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