Hannah Jones Books

"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country's very origin. The 1619 Project tells this new origin story, placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the center of the story we tell ourselves about who we are as a country. Orchestrated by the editors of The New York Times Magazine, led by MacArthur 'genius' and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, this collection of essays and historical vignettes includes some of the most outstanding journalists, thinkers, and scholars of American history and culture--including Linda Villarosa, Jamelle Bouie, Jeneen Interlandi, Matthew Desmond, Wesley Morris, and Bryan Stevenson. Together, their work shows how the tendrils of 1619--of slavery and resistance to slavery--reach into every part of our contemporary culture, from voting, housing and health care, to the way we sing and dance, the way we tell stories, and the way we worship. Interstitial works of flash fiction and poetry bring the history to life through the imaginative interpretations of some of our greatest writers. The 1619 Project ultimately sends a very strong message: We must have a clear vision of this history if we are to understand our present dilemmas. Only by reckoning with this difficult history and trying as hard as we can to understand its powerful influence on our present, can we prepare ourselves for a more just future."-- Provided by the publisher

Leaving Unknown: Maeve Connelly, along with Oliver her foulmouthed cockatiel, undertakes an epic road trip to Los Angeles. But when her car breaks down outside of Unknown, Arizona, she is in for a much longer rest stop than she expected.

Violent Ignorance addresses the uncomfortable political questions about belonging, race, migration and historywe would all rather ignore

Im August des Jahres 1619 legt die White Lion an der Küste von Virginia an. An Bord sind die ersten zwanzig Menschen, die aus Afrika verschleppt und auf dem nordamerikanischen Kontinent als Sklav:innen verkauft werden. Viele Millionen werden ihrem Schicksal folgen. In ihrem preisgekrönten publizistischen Projekt »1619« versammelt Herausgeberin Nikole Hannah-Jones Beiträge renommierter Autor:innen aus unterschiedlichsten Feldern, geschichtswissenschaftlich, soziologisch, dokumentarisch und poetisch, die eines gemeinsam haben: sie zeigen auf, wie grundlegend die Versklavung von Millionen verschleppter Menschen die USA prägte und wie dieses Erbe bis heute fortwirkt. Das Buch hat eine landesweite, inzwischen auch international geführte Debatte nicht nur über die Vergangenheit, sondern vor allem auch über die Gegenwart dieser Nation bewirkt.