2. The argument that slavery & racism have been constitutive of social life isn't even necessarily a radical one. I mean reactionary historians like Ulrich Phillips, a white Southerner, basically made that as the frame of his analysis.
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3. Also, it's ridiculous that people are applying a left/right spectrum to a series of debates that really cuts across these lines. Even as a Marxist Genovese drew on Philips. And Fogel/Engerman were liberals even as they argued for capitalist efficiency of slavery.
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5. Even beginning story in 1619 (Jamestown!) is to accept very old fashioned frame for USA history. There's another way to tell the story of slavery in the Americas that would note the English were latecomers to an enterprise the Portuguese, Spanish & French pioneered.
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6. My larger thoughts on 1619 Projects and the backlash to it, here: https://www.thenation.com/article/conservative-meltdown-1619-project/ …
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Trying to save Vlad's feelings?
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The thing that makes me craziest about it is, given the nature of the education system, not only are we all learning different histories, you don't even know what history whoever you're talking to was taught. (Generalizations possible but unreliable.) It's wildly disorienting!
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Exactly. We are all crazy in our own way because there are few if any reliable witnesses. And that's just the history that happens during our lifetimes. 1619? Forget about it, but always remember.
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