(Formerly the 1619 Project Discussion Group)
Join us the second Thursday of each month, on Zoom, as we continue to discuss how the legacy of slavery and race remain dominant factors in American political, cultural, and social spheres.
The library program centers on an article packet which serves as the discussion text each month. Past discussion topics included the history of slave laws, policing in America, and Critical Race Theory.
All current packets are available on this website and at any of the Heights Libraries. Previous packets are available as .PDFs in the Materials Tab.
Unpacking 1619 Podcast
Unpacking 1619 features interviews with scholars from around the country in which we unpack topics relating to the 1619 Project and race in America. Hosted by Adult Services Librarian John Piche.
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YouTube Video Playlist
You can view the entire playlist of 1619 project interviews on our YouTube page.
Upcoming Discussion
White Supremacy Part 8: Radicalization and Recruitment
For the upcoming discussion, we continue our deep dive into White Supremacy. This month’s reading packet includes articles "The New Online Radicals: The Third Generation of Online Radicalization" by Jacob Ware, "The Women of January 6th: A Gendered Analysis of the 21st Century American Far-Right" By Hilary Matfess and Devorah Margolin, and a Salon article "Shutting down the right-wing rabbit hole is possible: First, follow the money" by Amanda Marcotte.
Zoom Discussion
Thursday, Dec 14th, 2023 on Zoom
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Zoom ID: 823 648 5349
Password: 691353
Latest videos
Colonial Slavery and Disability with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Professor Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy discusses her book, “Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean,” which examines the relationship between disability, antiblack racism, and […]
Reproductive Injustice: Black Motherhood and Premature Birth with Prof. Dána-Ain Davis
Prof. Dána-Ain Davis, Queens College, convincingly argues that longstanding poor birth outcomes for Black women, including higher mortality and morbidity rates, cannot simply be explained […]
Unpacking Our History Lecture – Covering the Border War
How the news media create crime, race, nation, and the USA-Mexico divide examines border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and […]
Slavery and Surrogacy with Alys Weinbaum
Alys Weinbaum, professor of English at the University of Washington, discusses her book, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery. Professr Weinbaum examines how the legal and […]
View all of the our 1619 Project interviews and lectures
Interviews
Colonial Slavery and Disability with Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy
Professor Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy discusses her book, “Between Fitness and Death: Disability and Slavery in the Caribbean,” which examines the relationship between disability, antiblack racism, and […]
Reproductive Injustice: Black Motherhood and Premature Birth with Prof. Dána-Ain Davis
Prof. Dána-Ain Davis, Queens College, convincingly argues that longstanding poor birth outcomes for Black women, including higher mortality and morbidity rates, cannot simply be explained […]
Slavery and Surrogacy with Alys Weinbaum
Alys Weinbaum, professor of English at the University of Washington, discusses her book, The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery. Professr Weinbaum examines how the legal and […]
Banned Books and Gay Erasure with Caitlin O’Loughlin
For Banned Books week, join Caitlin O’Loughlin as she discusses her article, “It’s Just Filth: Banned Books and the Project of Gay Erasure.” She explains […]
Police Reform and Carceral Logic with Christy Lopez
Christy Lopez draws on her work as a Deputy Chief in the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of […]
Childhood and Carceral Society with Erica R. Meiners
Professor Erica Meiners discusses her book, For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State, in which the definition of childhood become an ideological state […]
Slavery and Disability with Jenifer Barclay
Professor Jenifer Barclay discusses how disability and ablism helped shape American ideas of slavery, black bodies, and the medical practice. She explains how the antebellum […]
Immigration as Racial Exclusion with Reece Jones
Professor Reece Jones discusses his book, White Borders. Tracing the connections between the Chinese Exclusion laws of the 1880s, the “Keep America American” nativism of […]
All Lives Matter Racism with Professor Sang Hea Kil
Professor Sang Kil talks about how “all lives matter” (ALM) has advanced Whiteness in the news. Using critical race theory’s critique of neoliberalism’s use of […]
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Lectures
Unpacking Our History Lecture – Covering the Border War
How the news media create crime, race, nation, and the USA-Mexico divide examines border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and […]
Unpacking Our History Lecture – Eugenics After Slavery
Eugenicists’ study of mixed race people with Black and white ancestry did not emerge in a vacuum. Slavery not only gave rise to myths about […]
Unpacking Our History Lecture: Disease, Slavery, and Politics in New Orleans
Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America’s slave and cotton kingdoms. But it was also the nation’s “necropolis,” with epidemic yellow fever killing thousands each summer […]
What Modern Medicine Gained from Slavery
Medical science in antebellum America was a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human yet still human enough to be useful as […]
Problems in Police Training with Jessica Katzenstein
Unpacking Our History Lecture: Problems in Police Training with Jessica Katzenstein Police reform advocates often push police departments to move from fear-laden “warrior” survival trainings […]
The Water We Swim In with Dr. Allison Skinner-Dorkenoo
This talk will make the case that systemic forms of oppression are maintained and reinforced through subtle patterns of thought and behavior, and present some […]
Holocaust and Slavery Reparations with Thomas Craemer
Unpacking Our History Lecture Series: Holocaust and Slavery Reparations with Thomas Craemer Professor Thomas Craemer grew up in post-World War II Germany. One day, he […]
Unpacking Our History Lecture Series: Why Ban Books? Understanding the Discourse of Censorship and Its Effects
Many attempts to ban books in schools and libraries have made headlines over the past few months. Almost all of these attempts have failed and […]
Interview with Kelsey Klotz on Dave Brubeck’s Civil Rights Advocacy
The 1619 Project continues online. Kelsey Klotz University of North Carolina at Charlotte Kelsey Klotz is a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at […]
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Latest Packet
All Materials
African Identity & Loss of Culture
Criminal Justice, Prisons, and Race
Slavery and Reparations Part 1
Slavery and Reparations Part 2
Slavery and the American Dream
Slavery in America Part 1
(1619 – 1699)
Slavery in America Part 2
(1699 – 1779)
Slavery in America Part 3 (1779-1859)
Slavery in America Part 4 (1859-1939)
Slaver in America Part 5 (1939-2019)
