Тони Моррисон3.9 "Возлюбленная" – самый знаменитый роман Тони Моррисон, удостоенный Пулитцеровской (1988), а затем и Нобелевской премии (1993). Это удивительная история чернокожей рабыни Сэти, решившейся на страшный поступок – подарить свободу, но забрать жизнь. Роман о том, как трудно порой бывает вырвать из сердца память о прошлом, о сложном выборе, меняющем судьбу, и людях, которые навсегда остаются любимыми.
Эбигейл Тернстром0.0 The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that all citizens have the right to vote without regard to their race, color, or previous condition of servitude. For almost a century the Fifteenth Amendment was a dead letter. Throughout the South millions of nonwhite Americans were excluded from the political process by poll taxes, literacy tests, and other devices. The landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 sought to end that injustice. In this absorbing book, political scientist Abigail Thernstrom analyzes the radical transformation of the Voting Rights Act in the years since its passage. She shows how a measure carefully crafted to open the polling booths to southern blacks has evolved into a powerful tool for affirmative action in the electoral sphere--a means to promote black and Hispanic officeholding by creating safe seats for minority candidates, What began as an effort to give minorities a fair shake has become a means of ensuring a fair share. Thernstrom demonstrates how voting rights have created a political thicket in which Congress, the courts, and the justice Department have been lost. Why this should be true, how small statutory changes led to large and unexpected results, how civil rights groups prevailed against a conservative Senate, how Republicans have benefited from gerrymandering to increase black officeholding--these stories are all part of Thernstrom's well-told tale. Even though the concept of the right to vote retains an aura of moral simplicity, the issue of minority voting rights is perhaps the most complex, yet least studied, of all affirmative action issues. Whose Votes Count? should stimulate the overduediscussion that the subject deserves among all those concerned with American politics.
Уолтер Ф. Моррис0.0 A text which documents the life of the Maya of today, a people who are the direct heirs to the Maya culture of Pre-Columbian times. The book covers the heritage of the Maya people, including their myths, legends and songs - and especially their weaving, which has survived for over 2000 years.
