1620 对1619计划的批判 美国的起源 1620 A Critical Response to the 1619 Project 英文原版
彼得·w·伍德(Peter W. Wood)是美国国家学者协会的主席。他曾任人类学教授和大学教务长,著有几本关于美国文化的书,包括《多样性:一个概念的发明》(2003年)和《嘴里的蜜蜂:愤怒的美国人》(2007年)。他是《学术问题》杂志的主编,也是一名发表了大量文章的散文家。2019年,他因对学术自由的贡献获得了珍妮·柯克帕特里克奖(Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize)。
When and where was America founded? Was it in Virginia in 1619, when a pirate ship landed a group of captive Africans at Jamestown? So asserted the New York Times in August 2019 when it announced its 1619 Project. The Times set out to transform history by tracing American institutions, culture, and prosperity to that pirate ship and the exploitation of African Americans that followed. A controversy erupted, with historians pushing back against what they say is a false narrative conjured out of racial grievance.
This book sums up what the critics have said and argues that the proper starting point for the American story is 1620, with the signing of the Mayflower Compact aboard ship before the Pilgrims set foot in the Massachusetts wilderness. A nation as complex as ours, of course, has many starting points, most notably the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the quintessential ideas of American self-government and ordered liberty grew from the deliberate actions of the Mayflower immigrants in 1620.
Schools across the country have already adopted the Times' radical revision of history as part of their curricula. The stakes are high. Should children be taught that our nation is a four-hundred-year-old system of racist oppression? Or should they learn that what has always made America exceptional is our pursuit of liberty and justice for all?
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