Annie Shaw-Barnes

The customized Lazy-Susan Table, a museum piece, was my Shaw family’s dining table

Posted Oct 24, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

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My Shaw family ate their meals at a customized Lazy-Susan table, that Granddaddy had  Read More 

My Granddaddy and Grand Mama provided abundant food on the table for mealtime

Posted Oct 21, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

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In addition to farming, my grandparents kept an abundance of food on the table for  Read More 

Today’s other lessons from Granddaddy’s business acumen

Posted Oct 20, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

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It follows that all black Americans ought to be smart on their jobs and get what they deserve and  Read More 

Granddaddy told the 20th century white man’s philosophy of Negro working people was flawed and contradictory. Has white man’s philosophy changed?

Posted Oct 19, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

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White cotton, peanut, and corn  Read More 

Granddaddy used other ways to get white buyers of peanuts, cotton, and corn, to pay him the same price they paid white farmers for their farm products

Posted Oct 18, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

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Still  Read More 

Granddaddy was a successful farmer in the 20th century.

Posted Oct 14, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

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Granddaddy was a businessman farmer and instructed Daddy, as the under-patriarch, to require all his sisters and brothers to  Read More 

Granddaddy gave daddy, his overseer, disciplinary power over his sisters and brothers

Posted Oct 13, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

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Granddaddy understood that for Daddy to run a good farm staff, he needed disciplinary power, and,  Read More 

Granddaddy nicknamed my daddy, Adam Shaw, Jr. “Boy” to keep him humble, to serve as under-patriarch of the Shaw family farm business

Posted Oct 12, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

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Granddaddy prepared to become a businessman  Read More 

Granddaddy Adam and Grand Mama Courtney organized and reorganized my daddy, aunts, and uncles, in different jobs, like corporations

Posted Oct 11, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

Hi everyone,

As a farmer, Granddaddy insisted that Grand Mama, Daddy,  Read More 

Granddaddy Adam was a good business man

Posted Oct 10, 2016

Annie Shaw-Barnes, Ph.D.
Author and Speaker
Cultural Anthropologist
Family Specialist
Family Education Specialist
Spousal Abuse Specialist
Christian Church Specialist
Racism Specialist

Hi everyone,

I loved my grandfather with passion because he loved me, had genuine manhood, and believed in working hard, because that was  Read More