Sentences with phrase «as sharecropping»

Métairie is the French term for a small tenant farm which paid the landlord with a share of the produce, also known as sharecropping.

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Steve Martin (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Lonely Guy) stars as Navin Johnson, a white man - child living as the adopted son of a poor black Mississippi sharecropping family, and though he doesn't quite know it, his «whiteness», in both skin color and interests, has definitely made him the «black sheep» of the family.

We need to do better by our students than to guide them toward embracing sharecropping as the preferred expression of digital identity.