The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

The 1619 Project:
A New Origin Story

First edition cover
Editors	Nikole Hannah-Jones Caitlin Roper Ilena Silverman Jake Silverstein
Language	English
Series	The 1619 Project
Genre	Anthology
Published	2021
Publisher	One World (imprint of Random House)
Media type	Print (hardcover), e-book, audiobook
Pages	624
ISBN	978-0-593-23057-2 First edition hardcover
OCLC	1250435664
Dewey Decimal	973
LC Class	E441 .A15 2021

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a 2021 anthology of essays and poetry, published by One World (an imprint of Random House) on November 16, 2021. It is a book-length expansion of the essays presented in the 1619 Project issue of The New York Times Magazine in August 2019. The book was created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine, and is edited by Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein.

On January 26, 2023, The 1619 Project documentary television series based on the original project and book debuted on Hulu. ^[1]

Contents

Section	Writer	Genre
Preface: "Origins"	Nikole Hannah-Jones	Nonfiction
"The White Lion"	Claudia Rankine	Poem
Chapter 1: "Democracy"	Nikole Hannah-Jones	Nonfiction
"Daughters of Azimuth"	Nikky Finney	Poem
"Loving Me"	Vievee Francis	Poem
Chapter 2: "Race"	Dorothy Roberts	Nonfiction
"Conjured"	Honorée Fanonne Jeffers	Poem
"A Ghazalled Sentence After 'My People...Hold On' by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740",	Terrance Hayes	Poem
Chapter 3: "Sugar"	Khalil Gibran Muhammad	Nonfiction
"First to Rise"	Yusef Komunyakaa	Poem
"proof [dear Phillis]"	Eve L. Ewing	Poem
Chapter 4: "Fear"	Leslie Alexander and Michelle Alexander	Nonfiction
"Freedom Is Not for Myself Alone"	Robert Jones Jr.	Fiction
"Other Persons"	Reginald Dwayne Betts	Poem
Chapter 5: "Dispossession"	Tiya Miles	Nonfiction
"Trouble the Water"	Barry Jenkins	Fiction
"Sold South"	Jesmyn Ward	Fiction
Chapter 6: "Capitalism"	Matthew Desmond	Nonfiction
"Fort Mose"	Tyehimba Jess	Poem
"Before His Execution"	Tim Seibles	Poem
Chapter 7: "Politics"	Jamelle Bouie	Nonfiction
"We as People"	Cornelius Eady	Poem
"A Letter to Harriet Hayden"	Lynn Nottage	Monologue
Chapter 8: "Citizenship"	Martha S. Jones	Nonfiction
"The Camp"	Darryl Pinckney	Fiction
"An Absolute Massacre"	ZZ Packer	Fiction
Chapter 9: "Self-defense"	Carol Anderson	Nonfiction
"Like to the Rushing of a Mighty Wind"	Tracy K. Smith	Poem
"no car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails)"	Evie Shockley	Poem
Chapter 10: "Punishment"	Bryan Stevenson	Nonfiction
"Race Riot"	Forrest Hamer	Poem
"Greenwood"	Jasmine Mans	Poem
Chapter 11: "Inheritance"	Trymaine Lee	Nonfiction
"The New Negro"	A. Van Jordan	Poem
"Bad Blood"	Yaa Gyasi	Fiction
Chapter 12: "Medicine"	Linda Villarosa	Nonfiction
"1955"	Danez Smith	Poem
"From Behind the Counter"	Terry McMillan	Fiction
Chapter 13: "Church"	Anthea Butler	Nonfiction
"Youth Sunday"	Rita Dove	Poem
"On 'Brevity'"	Camille T. Dungy	Poem
Chapter 14: "Music"	Wesley Morris	Nonfiction
"Quotidian"	Natasha Trethewey	Poem
"The Panther Is a Virtual Animal"	Joshua Bennett	Poem
Chapter 15: "Healthcare"	Jeneen Interlandi	Nonfiction
"Unbought, Unbossed, Unbothered"	Nafissa Thompson-Spires	Fiction
"Crazy When You Smile"	Patricia Smith	Poem
Chapter 16: "Traffic"	Kevin M. Kruse	Nonfiction
"Rainbows Aren't Real, Are They?"	Kiese Laymon	Poem
"A Surname to Honor Their Mother"	Gregory Pardlo	Poem
Chapter 17: "Progress"	Ibram X. Kendi	Nonfiction
"At the Superdome After the Storm Has Passed"	Clint Smith	Poem
"Mother and Son"	Jason Reynolds	Fiction
Chapter 18: "Justice"	Nikole Hannah-Jones	Nonfiction
"Progress Report"	Sonia Sanchez	Poem

Reception

The 1619 Project debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending November 20, 2021. ^[2]

On Book Marks, from nine critics: six "rave", two "positive", and one "mixed". ^[3] It received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. ^[1] Booklist included it in a list of the magazine's top 10 history books of 2021. ^[4] An American Heritage survey found that The 1619 Project was one of its readership's 15 favorite books published in 2021. ^[5]

See also

• The 1619 Project: Born on the Water

Notes

1. Rapp (2023).
2. "Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction - Best Sellers - Books - Dec. 5, 2021". The New York Times. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
3. "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story". Book Marks. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
4. Seaman (2022 , p. 10).
5. American Heritage (2022).

References

• Booth, Heather (March 15, 2024). "Listen-alikes: Voices of America". Booklist . Vol. 120, no. 14. p. 86.
• "Bookshop.org Celebrates Publication of The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story with Launch of Donation Platform". Global Banking News. November 2, 2021.
• Chalikiopoulou, Eleni; Veglis, Andreas (2024). "Transfictionality, Extensions and Transmedia Journalism: Expanding the Storyworld of Slavery of The 1619 Project". Journalism and Media. 5 (3): 892–914. doi: 10.3390/journalmedia5030057 .
• Cheek, Jada (Spring 2023). "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. Edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones". Journal of American Ethnic History. 42 (3): 135–136. doi:10.5406/19364695.42.3.08.
• Grover, Leslie T. (May 2022). "Decentering Whiteness and Uplifting Black Voices: The 1619 Project Reclaims American History". Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries . Vol. 59, no. 9. pp. 1096–1097.
• "Hannah-Jones, Nikole: The 1619 Project". Kirkus Reviews . September 1, 2021.
• Hoekema, David (January 2023). "Another Look at the 1619 Project". The Christian Century . Vol. 140, no. 1. pp. 80–83.
• Hochschild, Adam (November 21, 2021). "A Nation's Legacy". The New York Times Book Review .
• Minskoff, Alan (February–March 2022). "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story". AudioFile . Vol. 30, no. 5. p. 51.
• Mohan, Brij (2022). "Book Review: The 1619 Project". Social Development Issues: Alternative Approaches to Global Human Needs. 44 (1): 80–82. doi: 10.3998/sdi.2822 .
• Neem, Jonathan N. (Summer 2022). "A Usable Past for a Post-American Nation". The Hedgehog Review . 24 (2): 28–37.
• "Our Readers Choose: Favorite Books of 2021". American Heritage . Vol. 67, no. 2. Spring 2022.
• Rapp, David (January 25, 2023). "The 1619 Project: The Past Is Present". Kirkus Feature Articles and Interviews .
• Schmidt, Kelly L. (November–December 2021). "Liberty and Justice for All". Women's Review of Books . 38 (6).
• Seaman, Donna (October 1, 2021). "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story". Booklist . Vol. 118, no. 3. pp. 12–13.
• Seaman, Donna (February 1, 2022). "Top 10 History Books". Booklist . Vol. 118, no. 11. p. 10.
• "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story. One World". Library Journal . Vol. 146, no. 10. October 2021. p. 94.
• "The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story". Publishers Weekly . Vol. 268, no. 36. September 6, 2021. p. 83.

The 1619 Project Forum, AHR

• Barker, Joanne (December 2022). "Troubling Democracy". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1805–1810. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Bradley, Mark Philip; Wang, Fei-Hsien (December 2022). "The 1619 Project Forum". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1793–1794. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Chatterjee, Indra (December 2022). "Latin America and Sugar in 1619". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1853–1857. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Day, Faithe J. (December 2022). "From Academia to America: Using Digital Platforms to Remediate Public History". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1865–1870. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Edwards, Erika Denise (December 2022). "From Pain to Purpose: Shared Histories of Black America". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1845–1849. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Gordon-Reed, Annette (December 2022). "What Fear Produced: The Culture of White Supremacy in America". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1795–1799. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Greene, Sandra E. (December 2022). "'Necessary, Despite Errors, Distortions and Omissions'". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1823–1827. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Jones, Jeannette Eileen (December 2022). "Exploring 'American' Slavery: A Review of The 1619 Project and 1619education.org". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1857–1861. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Mikhail, Alan (December 2022). "1619, Islam, and Other Possible Histories". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1840–1845. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Moten, Crystal (December 2022). "A Beginning Worth Continuing: The 1619 Podcast". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1862–1865. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Powell, Eve M. Troutt (December 2022). "1619 in the Middle East". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1831–1834. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Schine, Rachel (December 2022). "Revisiting Religion, Race, and Place in the Islamic World with The 1619 Project". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1835–1840. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Scott, Daryl Michael (December 2022). "African American Exceptionalism in the Service of American Exceptionalism". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1815–1819. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Sharfstein, Daniel (December 2022). "The Critique and the Claim of the 1619 Project". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1810–1815. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Silverstein, Jake (December 2022). "Response from the New York Times Magazine". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1870–1871. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Stremlau, Rose; Lowry, Malinda; Reed, Julie L. (December 2022). "Interconnected Histories of Enslavement and Settler Colonialism". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1799–1805. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Sweet, James H. (December 2022). "An African-Atlantic Perspective on 1619's 'Origins' Project". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1827–1830. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Williams, Danielle Terrazas (December 2022). "Latin America and Sugar in 1619". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1849–1853. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.
• Wulf, Karin (December 2022). "Descendancies". The American Historical Review . 127 (4): 1819–1822. doi:10.1093/ahr/rhac462.

External links

• Official website