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Download or read book Citizen Akoy written by Steve Marantz and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akoy Agau led Omaha Central High School to four straight high school basketball state championships (2010–13) and was a three‐time All‐State player. One of the most successful high school athletes in Nebraska’s history, he’s also a South Sudanese refugee. At age four, Akoy and his family fled Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War, and after three years in Cairo, they came to Maryland as refugees. They arrived in Omaha in 2003 in search of a better future. In Omaha the Agaus joined the largest South Sudanese resettlement population in the United States. While federal resources and local organizations help refugees with housing, health care, and job placement, the challenge to assimilate culturally was particularly steep. For Akoy basketball provided a sense of belonging and an avenue to realize his potential. He landed a Division 1 basketball scholarship to Louisville for a year and a half, then played at Georgetown for two injury‐plagued seasons before he graduated in the spring of 2017. With remaining eligibility, he played for Southern Methodist University while pursuing a graduate degree. In a fluid, intimate, and joyful narrative, Steve Marantz relates Akoy’s refugee journey of basketball, family, romance, social media, and coming of age at Nebraska’s oldest and most diverse high school. Set against a backdrop of the South Sudanese refugee community in Omaha, Marantz provides a compelling account of the power of sports to blend cultures in the unlikeliest of places.
Download or read book Citizen Akoy written by Steve Marantz and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2019 Foreword INDIES Award, Honorable Mention for Adventure, Sports & Rec Akoy Agau led Omaha Central High School to four straight high school basketball state championships (2010–13) and was a three‑time All‑State player. One of the most successful high school athletes in Nebraska’s history, he’s also a South Sudanese refugee. At age four, Akoy and his family fled Sudan during the Second Sudanese Civil War, and after three years in Cairo, they came to Maryland as refugees. They arrived in Omaha in 2003 in search of a better future. In Omaha the Agaus joined the largest South Sudanese resettlement population in the United States. While federal resources and local organizations help refugees with housing, health care, and job placement, the challenge to assimilate culturally was particularly steep. For Akoy basketball provided a sense of belonging and an avenue to realize his potential. He landed a Division 1 basketball scholarship to Louisville for a year and a half, then played at Georgetown for two injury‑plagued seasons before he graduated in the spring of 2017. With remaining eligibility, he played for Southern Methodist University while pursuing a graduate degree. In a fluid, intimate, and joyful narrative, Steve Marantz relates Akoy’s refugee journey of basketball, family, romance, social media, and coming of age at Nebraska’s oldest and most diverse high school. Set against a backdrop of the South Sudanese refugee community in Omaha, Marantz provides a compelling account of the power of sports to blend cultures in the unlikeliest of places.
Book Synopsis Nebraska History by : Addison Erwin Sheldon
Download or read book Nebraska History written by Addison Erwin Sheldon and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis A Compilation of Selected Presidential Speeches by : Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo
Download or read book A Compilation of Selected Presidential Speeches written by Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central by : Steve Marantz
Download or read book The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central written by Steve Marantz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicknamed the "Rhythm Boys," provides a history of Omaha Central High School's all-black starting lineup in the spring of 1968, detailing the role of star center Dwaine Dillard, segregationist George Wallace, and the racial tensions following Wallace's visit in determining the Nebraska state high school basketball tournament champion in that tumultuous year.
Book Synopsis Next Up at Fenway by : Steve Marantz
Download or read book Next Up at Fenway written by Steve Marantz and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcos Baez had many loves. First was his mother. Next came baseball. Reggaeton and bachata. A girl stole his heart. Then he realized a love greater still. Learning. "Through the story of Marcos Baez and Fenway High, Steve Marantz shows the humanity and prospects of Latino students in our nation's public schools. Next Up at Fenway gives us a window into how social forces and education policy decisions are playing out in real people's lives - for better and worse - within America's fastest growing demographic. This book is both Americana and a reality check for the 21st century." -Sonia Chang-Diaz, Massachusetts state senator and former teacher
Book Synopsis Sorcery at Caesars by : Steve Marantz
Download or read book Sorcery at Caesars written by Steve Marantz and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Places for Happiness by : William Peterson
Download or read book Places for Happiness written by William Peterson and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places for Happiness explores two of the most important performance-based activities in the Philippines: the processions and Passion Plays associated with Easter and the mass-dance phenomenon known as “street dancing.” The scale of these handcrafted performances in terms of duration, time commitment, and productive labor marks the Philippines as one of the world’s most significant and undervalued performance-centered cultures. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, William Peterson examines how people come together in the streets or on temporary stages, celebrating a shared sense of community and creating places for happiness. The first half of the book focuses on localized and often highly idiosyncratic versions of the Passion of Christ. Peterson considers not only what people do in these events, but what it feels like to participate. The book’s second half provides a window into the many expressions of “street dancing.” Street dancing is inflected by localized indigenous and folk dance traditions that are reinforced at school and practiced in conjunction with religious civic festivals. Peterson identifies key frames that shape and contain the individual in the Philippines, while tracking how the local expands its expressive home by engaging in a dialogue with regional, national, and diasporic Filipino imaginaries. Ultimately Places for Happiness explores how community-based performance responds to and fulfills basic human needs. Many Filipinos rely on family members and immediate neighbors for support and sustenance, and community-based performance assumes a unique and leading role in defining, reinforcing, and celebrating shared belief systems. By bringing forth the internal, phenomenological, and embodied aspects of a range of community-based practices contributing to human happiness, the book offers a cultural framework that interweaves the individual experience with that of the collective, plotting out what resides inside the body through the coordinates of culture.
Book Synopsis Second-class Citizen by : Buchi Emecheta
Download or read book Second-class Citizen written by Buchi Emecheta and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis From the battle of Zama to end of the first Triumvirate by : Victor Duruy
Download or read book From the battle of Zama to end of the first Triumvirate written by Victor Duruy and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Rome, and of the Roman People by : Victor Duruy
Download or read book History of Rome, and of the Roman People written by Victor Duruy and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Rome, and of the Roman People, from Its Origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians by : Victor Duruy
Download or read book History of Rome, and of the Roman People, from Its Origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians written by Victor Duruy and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Rome and the Roman People by : Victor Duruy
Download or read book History of Rome and the Roman People written by Victor Duruy and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Grammatical Comparison of Malay and Tagalog by : Cecilio Lopez
Download or read book A Grammatical Comparison of Malay and Tagalog written by Cecilio Lopez and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
