The 1619 Project : a new origin story / edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593230572
- ISBN: 0593230574
- Physical Description: xxxiii, 590 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : One World, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
Content descriptions
General Note: | "Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, & The New York Times magazine" -- Book jacket. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-550) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Preface : Origins / by Nikole Hannah-Jones. 1619 : The white lion : poem / by Claudia Rankine -- Democracy / by Nikole Hannah-Jones. 1662 : Daughters of Azimuth : poem / by Nikky Finney ; 1682 : Loving me : poem / by Vievee Francis -- Race / by Dorothy Roberts/ 1731 : Conjured : poem / by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers ; 1740 : A ghazalled sentence after "My people...hold on" by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740 : poem / by Terrance Hayes -- Sugar / by Khalil Gibran Muhammad. 1770 : First to rise : poem / by Yusef Komunyakaa ; 1773 : proof [dear Phyllis] : poem / by Eve L. Ewing -- Fear / by Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander. 1775 : Freedom is not for myself alone : fiction / by Robert Jones, Jr. ; 1791 : Other persons : poem / by Reginald Dwayne Betts -- Dispossession / by Tiya Miles. 1800 : Trouble the water : fiction / by Barry Jenkins ; 1808 : Sold South : fiction / by Jesmyn Ward -- by Matthew Desmond. 1816 : Fort Mose : poem / by Tyehimba Jess ; 1822 : Before his execution : poem / by Tim Seibles -- Politics / by Jamelle Bouie. 1830 : We as people : poem / by Cornelius Eady ; 1850 : A letter to Harriet Hayden : monologue / by Lynn Nottage -- Citizenship / by Martha S. Jones. 1863 : The camp : fiction / by Darryl Pinckney ; 1866 : An absolute massacre : fiction / by ZZ Packer -- Self-defense / by Carol Anderson. 1870 : Like to the rushing of a mighty wind : poem / by Tracy K. Smith ; 1883 : no car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on[ the rails) : poem / by Evie Shockley -- Punishment / by Bryan Stevenson. 1898 : Race riot : poem / by Forrest Hamer ; 1921 : Greenwood : poem / by Jasmine Mans -- Inheritance / by Trymaine Lee. 1925 : The new Negro : poem / by A. Van Jordan ; 1932 : Bad blood : fiction / by Yaa Gyasi -- Medicine / by Linda Villarosa. 1955 : 1955 : poem / by Danez Smith ; 1960 : From behind the counter : fiction / by Terry McMillan -- Church / by Anthea Butler. 1963 : Youth Sunday : poem / by Rita Dove ; 1963 : On "Brevity" : poem / by Camille T. Dungy -- Music / by Wesley Morris. 1965 : Quotidian : poem / by Natasha Trethewey ; 1966 : The panther is a virtual animal : poem / by Joshua Bennett -- Healthcare / by Jeneen Interlandi. 1972 : Unbought, unbossed, unbothered : fiction / by Nafissa Thompson-Spires ; 1974 : Crazy when you smile : poem / by Patricia Smith -- Traffic / by Kevin M. Kruse. 1984 : Rainbows aren't real, are they? : fiction / by Kiese Laymon ; 1985 : A surname to honor their mother : poem / by Gregory Pardlo -- Progress / by Ibram X. Kendi. 2005 :4tAt the Superdome after the storm has passed : poem / by Clint Smith ; 2008 : Mother and son : fiction / by Jason Reynolds -- Justice / by Nikole Hannah-Jones. 2020 : Progress report : poem / by Sonia Sanchez. |
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Subject: | 1619 Project. Slavery > Political aspects > United States > History. African Americans > History. United States > Race relations United States > Civilization. |
Available copies
- 73 of 78 copies available at Evergreen Indiana. (Show)
- 0 of 0 copies available at Princeton Public Library.
Holds
- 1 current hold with 78 total copies.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones is a Pulitzer Prizeâwinning reporter covering racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine, and creator of the landmark 1619 Project. In 2017, she received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, known as the Genius Grant, for her work on educational inequality. She has also won a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards, three National Magazine Awards, and the 2018 John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism from Columbia University. In 2016, Hannah-Jones co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training and mentorship organization geared toward increasing the number of investigative reporters of color. Hannah-Jones is the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard University, where she has founded the Center for Journalism and Democracy. In 2021, she was named one of Timeâs 100 most influential people in the world.
The 1619 Project is an ongoing initiative from The New York Times Magazine that began in August 2019, the four hundredth anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It is led by Pulitzer Prizeâwinning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, along with New York Times Magazine editor-in-chief Jake Silverstein and editors Ilena Silverman and Caitlin Roper.