The New York Times' 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History: Essays and Interviews

ISBN-10
1893638936
ISBN-13
9781893638938
Category
Critical pedagogy
Language
English
Published
2021
Authors
Thomas Mackaman, David North

Description

"The New York Times' 1619 Project, launched in August 2019, mobilized vast editorial and financial resources to portray racial conflict as the central driving force of American history. By denigrating the democratic content of the American Revolution and of the Civil War, it sought to erode democratic consciousness and to undermine the common struggle of the working class of all ethnic backgrounds against staggering social inequality. The book includes the World Socialist Web Site refutation of the 1619 Project, interviews with eight right leading historians, a lecture series on American history, and a record of the controversy"--

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