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. 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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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.6 replies 42 retweets 354 likesShow this thread -
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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Replying to @HeerJeet
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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RiShawn Biddle Retweeted RiShawn Biddle
Also, as I stated in a previous retweet...https://twitter.com/dropoutnation/status/1164245747962978304 …
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RiShawn Biddle @dropoutnationThe problem is that a Marxist perspective focused on global settler-colonialism ignores how race is the modality for class in the United States. That economic class is more important than race thing won't work in the U.S. context because American history proves it to be false. https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1164244183282049024 …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
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A similarity between settler-colonialism in America and in some parts of the world is that race and ethnicity end up being modalities for class. Put this way: In Israel, your ethnic/religious status is the modality for class. If you are Palestinian, you are poor and oppressed.
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I'm not saying I would agree with such a critique, just that such a critique is easy to imagine.
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