Author: Josué de Castro
Publisher:
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Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Author: Rodney D Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997524109
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Are We Really Crabs in a Barrel challenges a long-held belief that has permeated the African American community that suggests that Blacks, generally, are not supportive of each other. Author and educator, Rodney D. Smith, tenaciously confronts the age-old myth that African Americans stand in the way, and even thwart the progress of other African Americans, similar to what has been viewed as analogous behavior in crabs--the marine life form. The gaze of Black America is the central target of the book as it aims to get the Black community, collectively, to see itself differently. Smith astutely asserts that "we [Blacks] often compare ourselves to crabs without giving full consideration to either life form, humans or crabs." He states further that "we must consider that crabs are not intended to live in barrels, and neither are humans." Throughout the book, Smith implores the reader to see the proverbial barrel as one and the same with the dire conditions many African Americans find themselves in today. America's racialized history of degradation, marginalization and discrimination is understood as, not only the backdrop to contemporary setbacks, but is recognized as the key determinant for many of today's barriers and obstacles. In the end, Are We Really Crabs in a Barrel is a direct challenge to Black America and an inferred challenge to the rest of America to interrogate some of the conditions history has caused. It is also a call to action. It urges Black hands and minds to concentrate their energies on collective transformation in order to combat the long-standing effects of racism. Above all, Smith encourages African Americans to question, and in due course, change their less than favorable attitudes and behaviors toward each other.

Author: Patrice Nganang
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374602999
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 501

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The award-winning author Patrice Nganang chronicles the fight for Cameroonian independence through the story of a father’s love for his family and his land and of the long-silenced secrets of his former life. For the first time, Nithap flies across the world to visit his son, Tanou, in the United States. After countless staticky phone calls and transatlantic silences, he has agreed to leave Bangwa: the city in western Cameroon where he has always lived, where he became a doctor and, despite himself, a rebel, where he fell in love, and where his children were born. When illness extends his stay, his son finds an opportunity to unravel the history of the mysterious man who raised him, following the trail of crab tracks to discover the truth of his father and his country. At last, Nithap’s throat clears and his voice rises, and he drifts back in time to tell his son the story that is burned into his memory and into the land he left behind. He speaks about the civil war that tore Cameroon apart, about the great men who lived and died, about his soldiers, his martyrs, and his great loves. As the tale unfolds, Tanou listens to his father tell the history of his family and the prayer of the blood-soaked land. From New Jersey to Bamileke country, voices mingle, the borders of time dissolve, and generations merge. In A Trail of Crab Tracks, the third part of a magisterial trilogy by Patrice Nganang, the award-winning author creates an epic of war, inheritance, and desire, and of the relentless, essential struggle for freedom.

Author: William W. Warner
Publisher: Little Brown
ISBN: 9780316923262
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Combines a natural history of the Atlantic blue crab with an historical and ecological study of Chesapeake Bay and a chronicle of the commercial crabber's year

Author: Priscilla Cummings
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN: 9780870333477
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Chadwick, a Chesapeake Bay crab, yearns for adventure and finds it in a most dangerous form, prompting the birds and marine animals who share the Bay to come to his rescue on the mainland.

Author: Priscilla Cummings
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN: 9780870335761
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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An underwater holiday adventure with a surprise visit from Santa

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Category : Blacksmiths
Languages : en
Pages : 634

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Author: Arron Chambers
Publisher: Standard Publishing
ISBN: 9780784722824
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 148

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Adult book for Studio GO! Game Show (VBS 2009)Each of the eight chapters:• Focuses on one aspect of going out in Jesus' name • Combines entertaining TV game show trivia, compelling stories, and solid biblical insight• Concludes with call-to-action questions for individual reflection or small group discussion

Author: Patricia E. Van West
Publisher: Turtle Books (New York, NY)
ISBN: 9781890515256
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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When Neville sees the hermit crabs which he so gently collected being mistreated by the crab man at a Jamaican hotel, he no longer wants to supply them but would thereby forfeit his income.