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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This contributors weren't all historians, correct? E.g. Jamelle Bouie.
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Linda Villarosa not a historian. Also, Trymaine Lee, Wesley Morris, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Bryan Stevenson.
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Right. But if you're saying there is a major right-wing perspective that's missing in pieces, then it should come from a major right-wing historian of slavery. Can you name one?
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