Is Butler's "Kindred" fodder for the 1776 project?
This post is riffing off of a comment I made on Leor's post, "Kevin Character Analysis". See here: https://leorblogsplot.blogspot.com/2023/11/kevin-character-analysis.html?sc=1700454447766#c6292752440283883920 My original comment: You went all in on the idea of Kevin as a student learning about the 1619 project. That's definitely a meaningful way to analyze it. Although neither Kevin or Dana spend any time in 1619, they do get a hands-on learning experience of 1800s institutionalized slavery. Both Kevin and Dana return to the present scarred, physically and mentally, and will never truly recover from their experience time traveling. It occurred to me that this could be used to argue that the 1619 project is a harmful way of teaching kids about American history (not my actual opinion, but an interesting question to unpack and debate about). Of course, it's essential to not censor history in any form, and it's important to face uncomfortable truths. That might b