Understanding the 1619 Project

Karlos Hill
Karlos Hill
University of Oklahoma

Dr. Karlos K. Hill serves as Chair and Associate Professor of the Clara Luper Department of African and African American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He founded the Tulsa Race Massacre Oklahoma Teachers Summer Institute to teach the history of the 1921 Race Massacre to middle and high school students. Hill has been a featured expert on Voxโ€™s Juneteenth documentary short, as well as national media includingย Time,ย USA Todayย and CNN. Professor Hill is the author of three groundbreaking books:ย Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory, The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History, andย The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History.

 

Overview

In August 2019,ย The New York Timesย published a series of feature stories entitled theย 1619 Projectย in order to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of enslaved Africans to British North America. Subsequently, theย 1619 Projectย has gone viral and perhaps sparked the most important societal debate in a generation about the importance of American slavery to founding of the United States. In response to what many conservatives perceived as the 1619 Projectโ€™s unpatriotic and anti-America rhetoric, in January 2021 the Trump administration released theย 1776 Reportย as a rebuttal to the 1619 Projectโ€™s overarching narrative and key claims. In this course, Professor Hill will provide a detailed overview of the projectโ€™s mission, goals, arguments, key advocates, and opponents. The presentation will contextualize the 1619 Projectโ€™s impact, as well as explain why it continues to spark controversy.

 

 

Professor Hillโ€™s Recommended Reading:

 

โ€œHow the 1619 Project Came Together – The New York Times.โ€ Accessed August 9, 2021.ย https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/18/reader-center/1619-project-slavery-jamestown.html.

 

โ€œThe 1619 Project.โ€ย The New York Times, August 14, 2019, sec. Magazine.ย https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html.

 

Pulitzer Center. โ€œThe 1619 Project Reading Guide: Quotes, Key Terms, and Questions.โ€ Accessed August 9, 2021.ย https://pulitzercenter.org/builder/lesson/1619-project-reading-guide-quotes-key-terms-and-questions.

 

Schwartz, Sarah. โ€œLawmakers Push to Ban โ€˜1619 Projectโ€™ From Schools.โ€ย Education Week, February 3, 2021, sec. Social Studies.ย https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/lawmakers-push-to-ban-1619-project-from-schools/2021/02.

 

Serwer, Adam. โ€œThe Fight Over the 1619 Project Is Not About the Facts.โ€ The Atlantic, December 23, 2019.ย https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians-clash-1619-project/604093/.

 

โ€œWe Respond to the Historians Who Critiqued The 1619 Project – The New York Times.โ€ Accessed August 9, 2021.ย https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html.

 

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