The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
 First edition cover | |
| Editors |
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| Language | English |
| Series | The 1619 Project |
| Genre | Anthology |
| Published | 2021 |
| Publisher | One World (imprint of Random House) |
| Media type | Print (hardcover), e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 624 |
| ISBN | 978-0-593-23057-2 First edition hardcover |
| OCLC | 1250435664 |
| 973 | |
| LC Class | E441 .A15 2021 |
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a 2021 anthology of essays and poetry, published by One World (an imprint of Random House) on November 16, 2021. It is a book-length expansion of the essays presented in the 1619 Project issue of The New York Times Magazine in August 2019. The book was created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine, and is edited by Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein.
On January 26, 2023, The 1619 Project documentary television series based on the original project and book debuted on Hulu.[1]
Contents
[edit]| Section | Writer | Genre |
|---|---|---|
| Preface: "Origins" | Nikole Hannah-Jones | Nonfiction |
| "The White Lion" | Claudia Rankine | Poem |
| Chapter 1: "Democracy" | Nikole Hannah-Jones | Nonfiction |
| "Daughters of Azimuth" | Nikky Finney | Poem |
| "Loving Me" | Vievee Francis | Poem |
| Chapter 2: "Race" | Dorothy Roberts | Nonfiction |
| "Conjured" | Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | Poem |
| "A Ghazalled Sentence After 'My People...Hold On' by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740", | Terrance Hayes | Poem |
| Chapter 3: "Sugar" | Khalil Gibran Muhammad | Nonfiction |
| "First to Rise" | Yusef Komunyakaa | Poem |
| "proof [dear Phillis]" | Eve L. Ewing | Poem |
| Chapter 4: "Fear" | Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander | Nonfiction |
| "Freedom Is Not for Myself Alone" | Robert Jones Jr. | Fiction |
| "Other Persons" | Reginald Dwayne Betts | Poem |
| Chapter 5: "Dispossession" | Tiya Miles | Nonfiction |
| "Trouble the Water" | Barry Jenkins | Fiction |
| "Sold South" | Jesmyn Ward | Fiction |
| Chapter 6: "Capitalism" | Matthew Desmond | Nonfiction |
| "Fort Mose" | Tyehimba Jess | Poem |
| "Before His Execution" | Tim Seibles | Poem |
| Chapter 7: "Politics" | Jamelle Bouie | Nonfiction |
| "We as People" | Cornelius Eady | Poem |
| "A Letter to Harriet Hayden" | Lynn Nottage | Monologue |
| Chapter 8: "Citizenship" | Martha S. Jones | Nonfiction |
| "The Camp" | Darryl Pinckney | Fiction |
| "An Absolute Massacre" | ZZ Packer | Fiction |
| Chapter 9: "Self-defense" | Carol Anderson | Nonfiction |
| "Like to the Rushing of a Mighty Wind" | Tracy K. Smith | Poem |
| "no car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails)" | Evie Shockley | Poem |
| Chapter 10: "Punishment" | Bryan Stevenson | Nonfiction |
| "Race Riot" | Forrest Hamer | Poem |
| "Greenwood" | Jasmine Mans | Poem |
| Chapter 11: "Inheritance" | Trymaine Lee | Nonfiction |
| "The New Negro" | A. Van Jordan | Poem |
| "Bad Blood" | Yaa Gyasi | Fiction |
| Chapter 12: "Medicine" | Linda Villarosa | Nonfiction |
| "1955" | Danez Smith | Poem |
| "From Behind the Counter" | Terry McMillan | Fiction |
| Chapter 13: "Church" | Anthea Butler | Nonfiction |
| "Youth Sunday" | Rita Dove | Poem |
| "On 'Brevity'" | Camille T. Dungy | Poem |
| Chapter 14: "Music" | Wesley Morris | Nonfiction |
| "Quotidian" | Natasha Trethewey | Poem |
| "The Panther Is a Virtual Animal" | Joshua Bennett | Poem |
| Chapter 15: "Healthcare" | Jeneen Interlandi | Nonfiction |
| "Unbought, Unbossed, Unbothered" | Nafissa Thompson-Spires | Fiction |
| "Crazy When You Smile" | Patricia Smith | Poem |
| Chapter 16: "Traffic" | Kevin M. Kruse | Nonfiction |
| "Rainbows Aren't Real, Are They?" | Kiese Laymon | Poem |
| "A Surname to Honor Their Mother" | Gregory Pardlo | Poem |
| Chapter 17: "Progress" | Ibram X. Kendi | Nonfiction |
| "At the Superdome After the Storm Has Passed" | Clint Smith | Poem |
| "Mother and Son" | Jason Reynolds | Fiction |
| Chapter 18: "Justice" | Nikole Hannah-Jones | Nonfiction |
| "Progress Report" | Sonia Sanchez | Poem |
Reception
[edit]The 1619 Project debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending November 20, 2021.[2] It received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize.[1] Booklist included it in a list of the magazine's top 10 history books of 2021.[3] An American Heritage survey found that The 1619 Project was one of its readership's 15 favorite books published in 2021.[4]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b Rapp (2023).
- ^ "Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction - Best Sellers - Books - Dec. 5, 2021". The New York Times. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
- ^ Seaman (2022, p. 10).
- ^ American Heritage (2022).
References
[edit]- Booth, Heather (March 15, 2024). "Listen-alikes: Voices of America". Booklist. Vol. 120, no. 14. p. 86.
- "Bookshop.org Celebrates Publication of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story with Launch of Donation Platform". Global Banking News. November 2, 2021.
- Chalikiopoulou, Eleni; Veglis, Andreas (2024). "Transfictionality, Extensions and Transmedia Journalism: Expanding the Storyworld of Slavery of The 1619 Project". Journalism and Media. 5 (3): 892–914. doi:10.3390/journalmedia5030057.
- Cheek, Jada (Spring 2023). "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. Edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones". Journal of American Ethnic History. 42 (3): 135–136. doi:10.5406/19364695.42.3.08.
- Grover, Leslie T. (May 2022). "Decentering Whiteness and Uplifting Black Voices: The 1619 Project Reclaims American History". Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. Vol. 59, no. 9. pp. 1096–1097.
- "Hannah-Jones, Nikole: The 1619 Project". Kirkus Reviews. September 1, 2021.
- Hoekema, David (January 2023). "Another Look at the 1619 Project". The Christian Century. Vol. 140, no. 1. pp. 80–83.
- Hochschild, Adam (November 21, 2021). "A Nation's Legacy". The New York Times Book Review.
- Minskoff, Alan (February–March 2022). "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story". AudioFile. Vol. 30, no. 5. p. 51.
- Mohan, Brij (2022). "Book Review: The 1619 Project". Social Development Issues: Alternative Approaches to Global Human Needs. 44 (1): 80–82. doi:10.3998/sdi.2822.
- Neem, Jonathan N. (Summer 2022). "A Usable Past for a Post-American Nation". The Hedgehog Review. 24 (2): 28–37.
- "Our Readers Choose: Favorite Books of 2021". American Heritage. Vol. 67, no. 2. Spring 2022.
- Rapp, David (January 25, 2023). "The 1619 Project: The Past Is Present". Kirkus Feature Articles and Interviews.
- Schmidt, Kelly L. (November–December 2021). "Liberty and Justice for All". Women's Review of Books. 38 (6).
- Seaman, Donna (October 1, 2021). "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story". Booklist. Vol. 118, no. 3. pp. 12–13.
- Seaman, Donna (February 1, 2022). "Top 10 History Books". Booklist. Vol. 118, no. 11. p. 10.
- "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. One World". Library Journal. Vol. 146, no. 10. October 2021. p. 94.
- "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 268, no. 36. September 6, 2021. p. 83.
The 1619 Project Forum, AHR
[edit]- Barker, Joanne (December 2022). "Troubling Democracy". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1805–1810. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Bradley, Mark Philip; Wang, Fei-Hsien (December 2022). "The 1619 Project Forum". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1793–1794. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Chatterjee, Indra (December 2022). "Latin America and Sugar in 1619". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1853–1857. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Day, Faithe J. (December 2022). "From Academia to America: Using Digital Platforms to Remediate Public History". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1865–1870. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Edwards, Erika Denise (December 2022). "From Pain to Purpose: Shared Histories of Black America". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1845–1849. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Gordon-Reed, Annette (December 2022). "What Fear Produced: The Culture of White Supremacy in America". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1795–1799. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Greene, Sandra E. (December 2022). "'Necessary, Despite Errors, Distortions and Omissions'". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1823–1827. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Jones, Jeannette Eileen (December 2022). "Exploring 'American' Slavery: A Review of The 1619 Project and 1619education.org". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1857–1861. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Mikhail, Alan (December 2022). "1619, Islam, and Other Possible Histories". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1840–1845. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Moten, Crystal (December 2022). "A Beginning Worth Continuing: The 1619 Podcast". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1862–1865. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Powell, Eve M. Troutt (December 2022). "1619 in the Middle East". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1831–1834. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Schine, Rachel (December 2022). "Revisiting Religion, Race, and Place in the Islamic World with The 1619 Project". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1835–1840. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Scott, Daryl Michael (December 2022). "African American Exceptionalism in the Service of American Exceptionalism". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1815–1819. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Sharfstein, Daniel (December 2022). "The Critique and the Claim of the 1619 Project". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1810–1815. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Silverstein, Jake (December 2022). "Response from the New York Times Magazine". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1870–1871. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Stremlau, Rose; Lowry, Malinda; Reed, Julie L. (December 2022). "Interconnected Histories of Enslavement and Settler Colonialism". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1799–1805. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Sweet, James H. (December 2022). "An African-Atlantic Perspective on 1619's 'Origins' Project". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1827–1830. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Williams, Danielle Terrazas (December 2022). "Latin America and Sugar in 1619". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1849–1853. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
- Wulf, Karin (December 2022). "Descendancies". The American Historical Review. 127 (4): 1819–1822. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.