Just read the Controversial AHA Piece, and I have two comments. (thread)
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I'll go out on not much of a limb and guess he has. It's historical sections are either decent but unremarkable (the music column, for instance) or pretty awful (the economics column, which was actually by a sociologist). The poetry was fine.
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But the book has lots of essays by professional historians. And frankly, I think it is cruel to mock Black people for loving popular history that no one my age was allowed to learn in school.
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Jim was my colleague for years. We hired him specifically because of his expertise in African and early modern Atlantic. We being a mid range state university in FL. 1/
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I have met him too—nice guy, very accomplished.
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Ah yes, the "Comment on the 1619 Project beyond the introductory essay" challenge.
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