This book is one of the best-written “Oral” American history books!
It makes me think of the times when we as a people sat down in front of griots. We were rooted in oral history, and this book teaches us how to learn and appreciate our history. It certainly is not another one of “Their History” books. The banning of this book, tells me that it is a written work of great importance. It makes people think and examine what they know and/or don’t know about history and their own lives.
This book helped me see that it is important to make people examine the facts of how and why this country was founded. The examination is made through the eyes of African-Americans. The poetry and the stories reach me in my inner soul and I was inspired by the insightfulness.
This is a book written with the keen eyes of a journalist presenting the facts as she found them. Providing these facts as seen, heard, believed by other African-Americans.
There are so many points of view on so many things, especially history. I thought as I read this book, of how different history would be if the Indigenous people on this continent had written our “history” books.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present.
FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Esquire, Marie Claire, Electric Lit, Ms. magazine, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist
In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of…
It is very apparent the work that Isabel Wilkerson did to write such a compelling work. I read the 395 pages plus in two days. I enjoyed reviewing the section called “Notes.” It was such a good read that I had a hard time putting the book down.
This is more than a feel-good book. Isabel Wilkerson took the time to do the impressive research. Only then did she type this manuscript.
The vocabulary and the passion that I feel as I read this book are hard to explain. Certain truths are revealed in this book. It’s reading time without the “alternative facts” that creep too often into daily discussion. A delightful book that everyone should read.
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"Powerful and timely ... I cannot recommend it strongly enough" - Barack Obama
From one of America's most celebrated and insightful writers, the moving, eye-opening bestseller about what lies hidden under the surface of ordinary lives
In this brilliant book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human…
This book made me travel back to my first history class at school. Too many things I was taught weren’t true, according to this book.
Reasonable explanations are provided as to why something was taught one way and why it was wrong.
It made me take time to examine my life and how I have been programmed to believe many things that were not true. It provides several points of view that I had not thought of.
It is an inspiring book that will aid me in my own writing.
From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans.
America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington's cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln's log cabin. It is the fantastic tale of slaves that spontaneously teleported themselves here with nothing but strong backs and negro spirituals. It is a sugarcoated legend based on an almost true story.
Peter Wright is clinging to a chimney surrounded by dirty water after Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans when he first learns that the man he calls his father is not his real daddy.
In this multi-layered urban tale, a young African American on a quest for the truth must decide whether to embrace his unusual destiny or return to his old life.
