Revisiting the National History of the 1619 Project in Media Discourse in English
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10.22055/rals.2023.19562چکیده
The growing influence of English-language media discourse in the construction of national and ethnic identity makes the issue raised in the article pertinent. The article's goal is to examine the primary methods used in English-language media discourse to formulate and express national identity. The cognitive-discursive method and the content analysis method are the most popular approaches used to analyze this issue. The New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project, which aims to reassess American history from the perspective of the African-American component's predominance in it and its place in the English-language American media discourse, is examined in this article. The project was originally intended to be a collection of essays that revised important ideas like the US Constitution, the founding fathers' significance, the "beginning point" of American history, and their nature. The essays first appeared in an interactive online platform and a special edition of The New York Times Magazine, but they have since transcended journalism to become a phenomenon in media, politics, and society. The project, according to the authors, is a media narrative that aims to critically rethink and debunk the primary mythologies and ideologies ingrained in American culture in order to create a new American mythology.