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Yes, post your reflections here.

Post your reflections on Hannah-Jones, Magness, Lindsay, now.  You can use “Leave comment here.”  By Tuesday morning, review the other students’ posts and make a comment or two.  Please be respectful and logical.

The next reading is the Wilentz, “American Slavery and the Relentless Unforeseen.”

This is a long piece and will take you some time to read it.  I would have a notebook at my side and as I read take a few notes to set up for my comment. Even if you don’t understand every word of the article, read through it and capture the main sequence of ideas, argument, narration etc.

I will have some comments on Wilentz by Friday 1pm.

Post your reflection on Wilentz by Tuesday or Thursday at the latest

What is his concept of “Relentless Unforeseen?”  How is that a critique of Hannah Jones or modification of her thesis?

Research the latest New York Times statement on 1619 Project.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/magazine/an-update-to-the-1619-project.html

How would you state Hannah-Jones’s thesis?  Write a one or 2 paragraph comment.  Save it on a separate file so you can use it in your next paper, which we will discuss soon.  To put it briefly, you will be writing a full review of Hannah-Jones and Wilentz and one or two other articles that you select.

 

Texts. Please read all of these, especially the Wilentz.

Hannah-Jones.  Scroll and click to her essay, the intro to the whole issue.

https://pulitzercenter.org/file/fullissueofthe1619projectpdf

Magness, “Fact Checking the 1619 Project and its Critics.”

https://www.aier.org/article/fact-checking-the-1619-project-and-its-critics/

Lindsay, “After All, Didn’t America Invent Slavery?”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomlindsay/2019/08/30/after-all-didnt-america-invent-slavery/#4adcf7b57ef6

Wilentz, “American Slavery and the Relentless Unforeseen.”

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/11/19/american-slavery-and-the-relentless-unforeseen/

Post your reflection on Hannah-Jones here.

Reflection on Hannah-Jones’, “The Idea of America. Intro to 1619 Project.” Additional readings to consider in your reflection, Magness, “Fact-Checking the 1619 Project and its Critics.” And Lindsay, “After All, Didn’t America Invent Slavery?”

This was supposed to be due Thursday the 12th, but you can post it by Tuesday 17th.

 

Possible topics to reflect on:

  1. Hannah-Jones thought on the leading role of African-Americans in the U.S. in the pursuit of goal of freedom and equality.
  2. How this relates to more recent immigrants.
  3. How the author shifts in the use of “we” and “us.” Is it possible or not for the “we” or “us” to include everyone with equality?
  4. Is the USA “in its DNA” an evil, unjust, racist society? What is your role and position in it? What do you do and what should you do in response?
  5. Do you consider yourself an American? What is the “idea of America” that Hannah-Jones agrees with and supports? What is the “idea of America” she condemns and disagrees with?
  6. Compare the situation of slavery, based on reading Hannah-Jones, to how we care or don’t care about the homeless person on the street, in the subway, etc.
  7. What have you learned that you didn’t know before from reading Hannah-Jones, Magness, and Lindsay? Are they addressing the same audience? Is there a discourse community they all belong to?
  8. Reflect on a topic that strikes you in relation to the readings, and in your personal experience. What type of language do you choose to use? Who is your audience?

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