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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2019

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2019

      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. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2019

      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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2019

      4. What I'd like to see -- maybe from @jacobinmag -- is a Marxist critique of how 1619 Project uses frame of American nationalism that distorts larger global story of settler-colonial expansion.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2019

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2019

      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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        1. TS Luikart‏ @TSLuikart 21 Aug 2019
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Having read your article, I strongly suggest you read the 2018 Hugo award winning short story: The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington. It's amazing. Link follows: https://firesidefiction.com/the-secret-lives-of-the-nine-negro-teeth-of-george-washington …

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        1. Greg Tinkle‏ @jgt1960 21 Aug 2019
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          @newtgingrich is an excellent choice for making this point. It's hard to imagine another political figure as driven to pushing ideology over truth and belief over reason in pursuit of partisan advantage.

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        2. Drigo  🇯🇲 | BLACK LIVES MATTER‏ @raerolls 21 Aug 2019
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          It's almost as if conservatives have been hypocritical and full of shit this entire time...

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        3. Lisa "over-educated" Modlin‏ @moveova 22 Aug 2019
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          Especially when there's a whole state (Texas) that revised or at least attempted to, the whole slavery narrative. Trying to reduce it down to African immigration.

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        1. andrew katz‏ @andrewkatz4 22 Aug 2019
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          Hannah-Jones piece was interesting. The rest?......

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        1. little socialist bukowski‏ @trillharris 22 Aug 2019
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          V well done

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        1. Ben Margulies‏ @chequeredfuture 22 Aug 2019
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          The thing is that even the planters were open about the centrality of enslavement to their society, and visions of modernity. Matthew Karp explores this point in This Vast Southern Empire

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