The New York Times 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History

De: David North

Narrado por: Wendy Thatcher

The definitive refutation of the New York Times’ 1619 Project, this volume includes original essays, lectures, and interviews with historians. Topics addressed include the complex development of slavery in the New World, the American Revolution, the sectional crisis over slavery and the Civil War, the struggle for social equality in the 20th century, and the class politics of racial identity in the present.

The book features interviews with renowned scholars Gordon Wood, James M. McPherson, James Oakes, Victoria Bynum, Richard Carwardine, Clayborne Carson, Adolph Reed Jr., and Dolores Janiewski.

This is a powerful resource for college and high school instructors - and a timely response to the 1619 Project’s interpretation of American history as an endless race struggle between Whites and Blacks. As Walter Benn Michaels puts it, “Everyone interested in understanding what actually happened then and what’s actually happening now needs to read it".

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Mostly Great...

With the exception of the afterword, which seems like it was written by a different author and was inserted simply to try and appease Democrats and progressives/socialists/communists, the actual book itself does an incredible job of dismantling the 1619 Project a false and hack job attempting to rewrite history.

The audio quality of this book was not good as very often you can hear where there are punch-ins, sometimes for single words. It's just edited well.

Regarding the afterward itself, despite Trumps many flaws, there has yet to be produced any significant evidence that Trump commandeered or told anyone to enter the capital building. In fact on the day itself he specifically told his supporters to peacefully protest.

Nontheless, if Jan 6th was a coup or insurrection then the firebombing of federal courthouses and police stations across the country in 2020 were as much or more so insurrections and certainly the literal succession of a section of Seattle from the United States for several weeks where innocent people were murdered by the leftist separatists surely counts as insurrection snd hardly as a "summer of love."

A Must Read!

One can mistakenly think that there is nothing wrong with writing about the horrors of slavery and racial discrimination, as has been done by previous scholars and historians until you read this book. It carefully critiques the method behind the New York Times 1619 project and particularly that of its lead writer Nicole Hannah Jones. They are not setting out to clarify American history but to create a totally new and false narrative, one that is based on looking at all of American history through the lens of race and the constant, unending struggle between the white and black races of society. For Nicole Hannah Jones nothing has changed in over 400 years. Every progressive struggle, including that of the Civil Rights movement which united people of all races in a mass movement to tear down the barriers of Jim Crow, is repudiated. Who serves to benefit from such an outlook? It is certainly not the millions of workers of all races who suffer from the consequences of social inequality and who are being driven into common struggles to oppose these conditions.

Fantastic Analysis

This book pushes beyond the immediate polemic against the New York Time's efforts to falsify history and provides a solid introduction to the study of history and the significance of the American Revolution and Civil War.

Masterful takedown of the 1619 project

Read or listen to this book if you are intrigued by the 1619 Project but are open-minded enough to explore other perspectives. Here, a small Trotskyist organization collaborated with the most highly respected American historians to produce a masterful takedown of the 1619 Project. For the historians, it is mostly a matter of preserving the integrity of peer-reviewed historiography. For the Trotskyists, it’s more than that. They want to demonstrate the crucial importance of historical materialism in the battle to overthrow the capitalist system. The reader comes away with a deeper and more nuanced understanding of not only American history but also the insidious identity politics that drives the 1619 Project. The authors not only defend the revolutionary nature of the War of Independence and the Civil War, but also embolden “we the people” to honour that legacy by fighting for our very own revolution, an international socialist revolution.
By the way, the narrator, Wendy Jackson, was excellent. It was a genuine pleasure listening to this book on my daily walks.

A Level-headed analysis

Welcome break from the "Blind Patriotic Defense of American History" / "Race based narrative" dichotomy.