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Clint Smith, “August 1619” for “A New Literary Timeline,” New York Times Magazine issue “The 1619 Project” (2019)
For the last three weeks, we have been discussing the problem of origins in American literary history. Where do we begin? Which landing do we turn to and how does that story go? We looked at the Iroquois Creation Story …
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