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"The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story" (2021)
Created by Nikole Hannah-Jones
& The New York Times magazine
"In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of
Virginia bearing a cargo of somewhere between twenty
and thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led
to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American
chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years.
This is sometimes referred to as our country's original
sin, but it is more than that. It is the source of so much
that still defies the United States."
--- 책 컽표지 안쪽에서
Alberto Angela, "A Day in the Life of Ancient Rome" (2009)
Translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti
Colin Woodard, "American Nations: A History of the
Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America" (2011)
"What Have You Lost? Poems slected by Naomi Shihab Nye " (1999)
짧은 시 한 편을 읽어본다:
Driving
Nothing will ever again
be my grandfather's Opel Coupe
smelling of Old Spice
swirling dust in the hills near Beirut.
I am a child
and my grandfather changes gears.
He buys me thyme
pies and we drive
to Jordan.
--- by Hass H. Mroue
("하고 싶은 말이 있어서 시릏 쓴다"는 어느 시인의 단순한 그 말이
인상적이었다. 이 짧은 시는 내게 '듣는 즐거움'을 준다.)
Joel Gross, "The Books of Rachel" (1979)
덴버대 캠퍼스의 "Book Stack"에 들렀더니 한 젊은 흑인 여성이, "닫혔어요"
하면서 복도의 'Free Books' 이동식 서가를 양쪽에서 함께 볼 수 있도록
복도 벽애 수직으로 돌려 놓는다. 그래서 눈에 띄어 들고 온 책이다.
궁금해서 Google해보니:
"The saga sweeps from the Spanish Inquisition to the tragedies
of the Holocaust and concludes around the birth of
a modern Jewish homeland."
