Lawmakers in Arkansas, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri and South Dakota want to stop lesson plans that focus on the centrality of slavery to American history as presented in the #1619Project.https://bit.ly/36Sxg5x
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While some historians have criticized parts of the project, the Times has stood behind it, and other historians have praised the project's approach and rigor and treatment of the role of white supremacy in U.S. history.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html …
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.@ProfKori notes several of the anti-1619 Project bills include language that seeks to address the project as a "revisionist," racially divisive framing of history.
Race does not intertwine with history only when people of color are involved, she said. https://bit.ly/36Sxg5x pic.twitter.com/Dvyoo57JBX
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@nhannahjones told The 19th that she doesn't believe the lawmakers who have filed these statehouse bills have actually read the project. She encouraged them and others to read the initiative before deciding how they feel about it.https://bit.ly/36Sxg5xShow this thread -
Michèle Foster, a professor at the University of Louisville, said much of what she learned about slavery she got from her family, not school. She sees a connection between the Capitol riots and the bills filed, linking them to fear of a changing country.https://bit.ly/36Sxg5x
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"I think there are historical and societal conditions that give rise to this fear, and one way to deal with fear is to pass legislation that restricts it," Foster said. More from
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#1619Project is correctionist not revisionist.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’m interested in how these will be challenged in courts. Let’s make them take off their hoods.
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