Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - 1619 project

i completely agree that if you want to real, valid, effective, meaningful history of events, reporters are mostly not where to go. i discovered this when reading coverage on the rwandan genocide, esp the first books, which brought tons of information, but ascribed the situation to a fixed historical account that was composed for the naive. a fixed, teleological account. anyway, i recented went back to Re-imagining Rwanda by Pottier, and appreciated how a solid historical account brings enormously more than these newspaper accounts that purport to give in 5 lines 200 years of history. soundbites vs depth.

ken

kenneth harrow

professor emeritus

dept of english

michigan state university

517 803-8839

harrow@msu.edu

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Not me. This was far from the only problem with it. The project seems to be an example of why historians wince when reporters try to write history, even if they have sometimes done so well. 

On May 30, 2021, at 10:10, Harrow, Kenneth <harrow@msu.edu> wrote:

could one of you historians explain to me why the 1619 project wants to make the claim that the first slaves brought to the u.s. was in 1619 when the spanish had done so earlier?

     John Edward Philips 

http://www.amazon.com/Slave-Elites-Middle-East-Africa/dp/0710306601

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