The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story is a 2021 anthology of essays and poetry, published by One World (an imprint of Random House) on November 16, 2021. It is a book-length expansion of the essays presented in the 1619 Project issue of The New York Times Magazine in August 2019. The book was created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine, and is edited by Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein.
On January 26, 2023, The 1619 Project documentary television series based on the original project and book debuted on Hulu..
Contents SectionWriterGenrePreface: "Origins"Nikole Hannah-JonesNonfiction"The White Lion"Claudia RankinePoemChapter 1: "Democracy"Nikole Hannah-JonesNonfiction"Daughters of Azimuth"Nikky FinneyPoem"Loving Me"Vievee FrancisPoemChapter 2: "Race"Dorothy RobertsNonfiction"Conjured"Honorée Fanonne JeffersPoem"A Ghazalled Sentence After 'My People...Hold On' by Eddie Kendricks and the Negro Act of 1740",Terrance HayesPoemChapter 3: "Sugar"Khalil Gibran MuhammadNonfiction"First to Rise"Yusef KomunyakaaPoem"proof [dear Phillis]"Eve L. EwingPoemChapter 4: "Fear"Leslie Alexander and Michelle AlexanderNonfiction"Freedom Is Not for Myself Alone"Robert Jones Jr.Fiction"Other Persons"Reginald Dwayne BettsPoemChapter 5: "Dispossession"Tiya MilesNonfiction"Trouble the Water"Barry JenkinsFiction"Sold South"Jesmyn WardFictionChapter 6: "Capitalism"Matthew DesmondNonfiction"Fort Mose"Tyehimba JessPoem"Before His Execution"Tim SeiblesPoemChapter 7: "Politics"Jamelle BouieNonfiction"We as People"Cornelius EadyPoem"A Letter to Harriet Hayden"Lynn NottageMonologueChapter 8: "Citizenship"Martha S. JonesNonfiction"The Camp"Darryl PinckneyFiction"An Absolute Massacre"ZZ PackerFictionChapter 9: "Self-defense"Carol AndersonNonfiction"Like to the Rushing of a Mighty Wind"Tracy K. SmithPoem"no car for colored [+] ladies (or, miss wells goes off [on] the rails)"Evie ShockleyPoemChapter 10: "Punishment"Bryan StevensonNonfiction"Race Riot"Forrest HamerPoem"Greenwood"Jasmine MansPoemChapter 11: "Inheritance"Trymaine LeeNonfiction"The New Negro"A. Van JordanPoem"Bad Blood"Yaa GyasiFictionChapter 12: "Medicine"Linda VillarosaNonfiction"1955"Danez SmithPoem"From Behind the Counter"Terry McMillanFictionChapter 13: "Church"Anthea ButlerNonfiction"Youth Sunday"Rita DovePoem"On 'Brevity'"Camille T. DungyPoemChapter 14: "Music"Wesley MorrisNonfiction"Quotidian"Natasha TretheweyPoem"The Panther Is a Virtual Animal"Joshua BennettPoemChapter 15: "Healthcare"Jeneen InterlandiNonfiction"Unbought, Unbossed, Unbothered"Nafissa Thompson-SpiresFiction"Crazy When You Smile"Patricia SmithPoemChapter 16: "Traffic"Kevin M. KruseNonfiction"Rainbows Aren't Real, Are They?"Kiese LaymonPoem"A Surname to Honor Their Mother"Gregory PardloPoemChapter 17: "Progress"Ibram X. KendiNonfiction"At the Superdome After the Storm Has Passed"Clint SmithPoem"Mother and Son"Jason ReynoldsFictionChapter 18: "Justice"Nikole Hannah-JonesNonfiction"Progress Report"Sonia SanchezPoem
Reception The 1619 Project debuted at number one on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending November 20, 2021.
It received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews and was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize. Booklist included it in a list of the magazine's top 10 history books of 2021.. An American Heritage survey found that The 1619 Project was one of its readership's 15 favorite books published in 2021..
See also The 1619 Project: Born on the Water
Notes
References
The 1619 Project Forum, AHR
External links Official website