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1619 Project Book Cover

“Our myths have not served us well.”

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones

November 19, 2022 by faintingviolet 4 Comments

I don’t imagine this will be a long review, not because the work doesn’t deserve it, and not because there wasn’t plenty to discuss during our book club earlier this fall, but because after spending months with this work, I don’t know how much more brain space I can give it. In a not insignificant way, I need to be done with this work for now. This book is a discussion. Its various contributors are providing context, new or more in-depth analyses of how so […]

Filed Under: History Tagged With: #history, American History, book club, CannonBookClub, historiography, how history is made, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Racism, reparations, Slavery, The 1619 Project

faintingviolet's CBR14 Review No:69 · Genres: History · Tags: #history, American History, book club, CannonBookClub, historiography, how history is made, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Racism, reparations, Slavery, The 1619 Project ·
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I wish my younger self could have read this book.

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates

October 30, 2017 by thewheelbarrow Leave a Comment

First and foremost, I love, maybe even adore, Coates writing.  He manages to weave narrative with fact and emotion with such grace and power.  If I could write like anyone, it would be Ta-Nehisi Coates. But I can’t write like Coates.  Even if we wrote with the exact same words, I could not write like him because I am not him.  For a long time, especially as a younger man, I believed that if I wanted to do something, it could be done and that […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: American Civil War, crime, essay collection, mass incarceration, nationalism, politics, Racism, reparations, Ta-nehisi Coates, white supremacy

thewheelbarrow's CBR9 Review No:3 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: American Civil War, crime, essay collection, mass incarceration, nationalism, politics, Racism, reparations, Ta-nehisi Coates, white supremacy ·
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