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Chargement... Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide Americapar Mary Grabar
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I did not finish this book -- but that's not because it's not good. It's because I've already read so many other critiques of The 1619 Project that I didn't need any more convincing that there are many flaws in the Project. Grabar provides copious footnotes and citations to back up her points. I consider myself more left-wing in philosophy than right-wing, but I had to concede that the flaws in the Project's scholarship were significant. ( ) I know some folks who have gotten very irate at The 1619 Project; they claim that The 1619 Project has been "debunked". I started this book wanting to understand what is "debunkable" and get to a better understanding of what each side is arguing. I didn't finish this book, because it didn't seem to have any content -- it was almost exclusively repeated manifestations of "the mythos we were teaching in the mid-20th century is the right mythos", peppered with minor quibbles that seemed to me like missing the forest for the trees. Since I already know the mid-20th century mythos inside out, this book didn't deliver any of the stretch I was hoping for. I'm disappointed that all I got from this book is "hmm, do my favorite polemics also just feel this weak to non-believers". Better than her book debunking Howard Zinn, and more timely. Grabar highlights many of the errors and misinterpretations of the 1619 Project. As part of this, she must show that Hannah-Jones is a Marxist, with all that entails, and pro-reparations. The purpose of the 1619 Project is not to highlight something that has never been highlighted (I've been teaching 1619 for decades), it's centering it for the purposes of destroying the Constitution and its limited government federalist system and destroying capitalism. Then the communist revolution! Grabar makes the point that this is the true purpose of the 1619 Project. Thus Grabar dissects the 1619 Project, pointing out its problems, both historical and interpretational. To be read in conjunction with Magness's The 1619 Project: A Critique and Wood's 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project. Those are more deeper and detailed, Grabar's book is written for a wider audience. Cited with endnotes, index. Could have used a bibliography of further readings. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:It's the New "Big Lie" According the New York Times's "1619 Project," America was not founded in 1776, with a declaration of freedom and independence, but in 1619 with the introduction of African slavery into the New World. Ever since then, the "1619 Project" argues, American history has been one long sordid tale of systemic racism. Celebrated historians have debunked this, more than two hundred years of American literature disproves it, parents know it to be false, and yet it is being promoted across America as an integral part of grade school curricula and unquestionable orthodoxy on college campuses. The "1619 Project" is not just bad history, it is a danger to our national life, replacing the idea, goal, and reality of American unity with race-based obsessions that we have seen play out in violence, riots, and the destruction of American monumentsâ??not to mention the wholesale rewriting of America's historical and cultural past. In her new book, Debunking the 1619 Project, scholar Mary Grabar, shows, in dramatic fashion, just how full of flat-out lies, distortions, and noxious propaganda the "1619 Project" really is. It is essential reading for every concerned parent, citizen, school board member, and policymak Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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