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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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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Even to tell the story of slavery in the US begins a century before Jamestown with the Spanish slave raids and missions of the East Coast.
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Story is about slavery in the United States, not the Americas, so little French and Spanish influence prior to Louisiana purchase.
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Certainly. But chattel slavery in the United States was peculiar in ways it wasn't in the rest of the world. Also, Jeet, 1619 was chosen because this year is the 400th anniversary of the first slaves brought to what is now the United States. Context, dude, context.
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Also, as I stated in a previous retweet...https://twitter.com/dropoutnation/status/1164245747962978304 …
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I dabble in teaching some of this every year, and this was my initial reaction
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