The 1619 Project

On this page, you'll find articles from the New York Times Magazine's version of The 1619 Project, and you'll be able to access the corresponding images and hyperlinks that were included in that special report.

The magazine also generated a 1619 Project podcast that you can listen to and/or read about via the transcript.

The New York Times Magazine also published An Update to the 1619 Project which offers a "a clarification to a passage in an essay from The 1619 Project that has sparked a great deal of online debate."

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American Capitalism is Brutal
In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation.
- Matthew Desmond
American Popular Music
For centuries, black music, forged in bondage, has been the sound of complete artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it.
- Wesley Morris
The Barbaric History of Sugar in America
The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric history as the ‘white gold’ that fueled slavery.
- Khalil Gibran Muhammad
A Broken Health Care System
Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care? he answer has everything to do with race.
- Jeneen Interlandi
The Idea of America
Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true.
- Nikole Hannah-Jones

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Mass Incarceration
Slavery gave America a fear of black people and a taste for violent punishment. Both still define our criminal-justice system.
- Bryan Stevenson
Medical Inequality
Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery — and are still believed by doctors today.
- Linda Villarosa
Undemocratic Democracy
America holds onto an undemocratic assumption from its founding: that some people deserve more power than others.
- Jamelle Bouie
The Wealth Gap
A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America.
- Trymaine Lee

Library Research Guides

ENGWR 300 - Professor Robinson (Fall 2023): The 1619 Project

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