A Closer Reading at Project 1619 (3 of 6)

Book Discussion

A Close Reading of the 1619 Project (3 of 6)

June 24, 2021

“The 1619 Project by Pulitzer-winning creator Nikole Hannah-Jones, is a long-form, far-reaching journalistic endeavor, which challenges us to reframe U.S. History. The project is named for the year of arrival of the first Africans to America and offers a historical analysis of how slavery has shaped America (economically, socially, and politically).

We will return to The 1619 Project using a practice inspired by meditative, close-reading approaches to understanding religious texts. Over the course of six weeks, we will engage with excepts, visual imagery, audio sound bytes, and musical samples to re-examine The 1619 Project and to cultivate an immersive experience that moves the group toward a deeper understanding of the texts as well as foster shared meaning-making.

Each session will offer a selection of excepts and materials from the project to inspire in-the-moment interpretations, reflections, feelings, and recollections among the group. While it may be helpful to read the entire work prior to the session, this is not necessary or required. Specifically, neither readings will be assigned nor preparation required in advance of sessions. In fact, we envision that the power of this immersive exercise will come from an in-vivo engagement with the work and the sharing of the “youngest seeds” of our thoughts, feelings, and reflections while they are yet in the earliest stages of germination. Our hope is that what is shared is unrestrained or unfettered and not otherwise censored.”

– Dr. Oyenike Balogun-Mwangi

Professor of Psychology & McAuley Scholar

at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI.

Dates:

THURSDAYS at 6:30pm

Jun 10, 2021 06:30 PM

Jun 17, 2021 06:30 PM

Jun 24, 2021 06:30 PM

Jul 8, 2021 06:30 PM

July 15, 2021 06:30 PM

Jul 22, 2021 06:30 PM

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Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker (1822-1907)
An ardent member of the woman’s suffrage movement, Isabella Holmes Beecher Hooker joined in the cause along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.

Isabella was the first child of Lyman Beecher and his second wife, Harriet Porter Beecher.

Isabella began her education at Catharine Beecher’s Hartford Female Seminary and lived with her sister Mary Perkins. In 1841 she married John Hooker, a descendant of Thomas Hooker, the founder of Hartford. John Hooker was a lawyer and an abolitionist.

In the early 1860s Isabella got involved in the woman’s suffrage movement. Isabella joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony as a member of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. She was a founding member of the Connecticut Woman’s Suffrage Association. Isabella’s ideas of equality were influenced by John Stuart Mills’ On Liberty and the Subjection of Women.

In 1871, Isabella organized the annual convention of the National Woman’s Suffrage Association in Washington D.C. and presented her argument before the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. Her husband, John Hooker, believed in his wife and supported her activities. He helped Isabella draft a bill to the Connecticut Legislature giving married women the same property rights as their husbands. The bill passed in 1877. Isabella annually submitted a bill granting women the right to vote, but it did not pass in her lifetime.