![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tom Cotton to strip federal funds from schools that teach the 1619 Project or critical race theory. As she notes, the accompanying backlash has been vigorous, including attempted laws by the likes of Sen. Hannah-Jones and colleagues consider a nation still wrestling with the outcomes of slavery, an incomplete Reconstruction, and a subsequent history of Jim Crow laws and current legal efforts to disenfranchise Black voters. ![]() It may have been White people who enslaved them, but apart from the legal and constitutional paperwork, it was Black people who resisted and liberated themselves and others, from their very first arrival at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619 to the very present. The 1619 Project was intended to introduce Black people into the mainstream narrative of American history as active agents. A book-length expansion of the New York Times Magazine issue that explores the history of slavery in America and its countless toxic consequences.įamously denied tenure at the University of North Carolina for her critical journalism, Hannah-Jones sounds controversial notes at the start: There are no slaves but instead enslaved people, a term that “accurately conveys the condition without stripping the individual of his or her humanity,” while the romantic plantation gives way to the more accurate terms labor camp and forced labor camp. ![]()
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