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The New York Times’ 1619 Project and the Racialist Falsification of History

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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. The Project denigrated the democratic content of the American Revolution and of the Civil War; it omitted entirely the struggle for labor and civil rights in the twentieth century.

The book includes interviews with eight eminent historians of American history, including Gordon Wood, James M. McPherson, Victoria Bynum, James Oakes, Richard Carwardine, Adolph Reed Jr., Dolores Janiewski, and Clayborne Carson.

Through lectures and essays, the book answers the deep intellectual, social, and cultural crisis of capitalist society, manifested in the racialist theorizing of the NY Times’ 1619 Project, with the struggle for objective truth upon which the unity of the working class is based.

An Afterword examines the reactionary premises of Trump’s “1776 Project.”

Pages: 377

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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. The Project denigrated the democratic content of the American Revolution and of the Civil War; it omitted the struggle for labor and civil rights in the twentieth century.

The 1619 Project does not mention Frederick Douglass and his influence on Lincoln’s Civil War policies, nor Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. It is entirely based upon the reactionary and discredited theories of black nationalist Lerone Bennett.

The book elaborates American history through lectures, essays, and interviews with eminent historians Gordon Wood, James M. McPherson, Victoria Bynum, James Oakes, Richard Carwardine, Adolph Reed Jr., Dolores Janiewski, and Clayborne Carson.

These lectures and essays answer the deep intellectual, social, and cultural crisis of capitalist society, manifested in the racialist theorizing of the NY Times’ 1619 Project, with the struggle for objective truth upon which the unity of the working class is based. An Afterword examines the reactionary premises of Trump’s “1776 Project.”

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Part I: HISTORICAL CRITIQUE OF THE 1619 PROJECT

*The New York Times’ 1619 Project: A Racialist Falsification of American and World History; *Slavery and the American Revolution; *The “Irrepressible Conflict”: Slavery, the Civil War, and America’s Second Revolution; *Race, Class, and Socialism

Part II: INTERVIEWS with eight historians

Part III: POLEMICS

Part IV: HISTORICAL COMMENTARY

Part V: THE CRISIS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’ 1619 PROJECT

AFTERWORD: Trump’s 1776 Travesty

Contains a Foreword, Photo Section, Works Cited, Index

Pages: 377

Weight 490 g
Dimensions 228 × 152 × 20 mm
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David North has played a leading role in the international socialist movement for forty-five years, and is presently the chairperson of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site and the Socialist Equality Party (US). His many published works include The Heritage We Defend; The Crisis of American Democracy; In Defense of Leon Trotsky; The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century; The Frankfurt School, Postmodernism and the Politics of the Pseudo-Left and A Quarter Century of War.

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