Nikole Hannah-Jones On Controversy Around ‘The 1619 Project’: “This Is Not Actually A Radical Project” DeadlineContenders TV Documentary + Unscripted
noted during an appearance at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary + Unscripted event. Hannah-Jones won the Pulitzer Prize for the print series. The furor notwithstanding, she maintained, “This is not actually a radical project. It’s based on decades of scholarship and within the history profession the ideas that we put forth are actually not that controversial. … Many Americans have been open to its arguments.
, the series’ executive producer and showrunner. Guy was among those charged with turning the print series into a cinematic experience. “Our producers, our directors were constantly workshopping, coming up with ideas and ways to bring these stories to life,” she said.Publication of The 1619 Project four years ago set off the virulent debate over “critical race theory.
“In the state of Florida, the Department of Education there has prohibited the teaching of The 1619 Project in public schools,” Hannah-Jones said. “So, what you’re seeing is a response to that where we deracialize the story of Rosa Parks — which you cannot do, because Rosa Parks was standing up against the system of racial apartheid. And the reason she had to give up that seat was because she was a Black woman, not just because someone was being mean to her.
Hannah-Jones added, “What that tells us is that we have people who are actually so ashamed of our history that they don’t believe that we can tell it truthfully and still believe in these ideas of American exceptionalism.”
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