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Edition 53 (1988)

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A photo-documentary nonfiction book on contemporary Maya life and culture.

It presents daily life and tradition among the contemporary Maya.

224 pages
photographyethnographyMaya culturenonfiction
Toni Morrison Winner

A novel following Hillela through political upheaval and family change in South Africa.

It follows life and choice under apartheid.

341 pages
novelSouth Africapoliticsfamily

Toni Morrison's landmark novel about a family haunted by slavery and memory.

Ghosts and memory pursue the family.

288 pages
novelslavery and memoryfamilyAfrican American literature

A cultural record that presents the life, rituals, textiles, markets, and communities of contemporary Maya people through abundant photographs. It depicts the Maya world as a living present rather than only as an inheritance from an ancient civilization.

It shows the Maya as people living now, not only as descendants of an ancient civilization.

224 pages
Maya cultureethnographyphoto bookCentral Americaweaving

A scholarly study that examines how voting-rights law was transformed within race policy and electoral institutions. It critically follows how a system that expanded Black participation was later recast under a different political logic.

Where did the system around voting rights change the meaning of fairness?

316 pages
voting rightsrace policylawAmerican politicscivil rights