1. The freakout over the 1619 Project by the right kind of reveals how unfamiliar many people are with the basic outline of African-American history. The entire project is grounded in very mainstream scholarship -- and indeed lines of argument that go back to Douglass & du Bois.
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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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Their intent is not to tell the story of slavery but to tell how the legacy slavery affects everyday life today. They say so right up front.
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This suggests that the American story that is told is somehow at odds with a larger global narrative, without giving any grounds for that view. Did CLR James Black Jacobin distort a larger story, because it was focused on the freedom struggle in Haiti?
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The leading scholars of settler colonialism are not Marxists, and Marxist historians have been much less interested in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries than in the 19th and 20th.
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The Marxist critique is already out there, in the form of
@Sven_Beckert's book Empire of Cotton, which shows how slavery was constitutive not just of US but of global capitalism. The interpretive diffs are not so much ideological (left/right) as methodological (global v local).
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