Sentences with phrase «black sharecroppers on»

Dee Rees's hard - eyed drama about a family of black sharecroppers on a Mississippi farm is essential viewing in 2017.

Not exact matches

And so the tale of a Green Knight with his chopped - off head still holding a knight of the Round Table to promises made is no less true than the tale of a man crammed with secrets who spontaneously combusts and leaves behind only a black, tallowy mark on the floorboards, and his story in turn is no less true than the tale of a Texas sharecropper's wife who has had a miscarriage only ten days before but just this morning was walking behind the mule and guiding the jerking plow.

When the author recalls the long gallery of persons whom, in the course of this inquiry, he has come to know with the impetuous but temporary intimacy of the stranger — sharecroppers and plantation owners, workers and employers, merchants and bankers, intellectuals, preachers, organization leaders, political bosses, gangsters, black and white, men and women, young and old, Southerners and Northerners — the general observation retained is the following: Behind all outward dissimilarities, behind their contradictory valuations, rationalizations, vested interests, group allegiances and animosities, behind fears and defense constructions, behind the role they play in life and the mask they wear, people are all much alike on a fundamental level And they are all good people.

Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, now battles the prejudice in the Jim Crow South.

Set in hard - times Mississippi just before, during and after World War II and based on a 2008 novel by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound focuses on two poor families: one white farmers (the McAllans); the other black sharecroppers (the Jacksons) who work the former's land.

Ronsel Jackson (Jason Mitchell), meanwhile, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the farm, comes home from war a hero, only to face far more dangerous battles against the ingrained bigotry of his own countrymen...

The filmmaker also pays careful attention to a white sharecropper who can not psychologically cope with the thought of being on equal economic terms with black farmers and is driven to terrifying, violent madness.

It's white supremacy in its Sunday finest, dressed up in the illusion of neighborliness, but Henry's demands are a constant tax on the Jacksons, assuming their servitude extends beyond the bounds of their tenancy agreement because they are black (he never calls on those white sharecroppers).

Set in post World War II Mississippi, Mudbound — based on Hillary Jordan's Bellwether Prize - winning novel — tells the story of Henry and Laura McAllan, a white farming family, and Hap and Florence Jackson, the black sharecroppers who live on and work their land.

Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, has come home with the shine of a war hero.

Almost every other black family worked as sharecroppers, which meant that they did all the hard work on another man's land and then had to give most of the profit right back to the owner.

Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches.

Andrews's Mississippi River Bank, 2005; Gibson's Sharecropper, 2015; Binion's DNA: Black Painting: IV, 2015; and Saterstrom's Road to Shubuta, 2016, are currently on view in «Picturing Mississippi, 1817 — 2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise» through July 8.

Four of the works — Andrews» Mississippi River Bank, Gibson's Sharecropper, Binion's DNA: Black Painting: IV, and Saterstrom's Road to Shubuta — are currently on view through July 8, 2018, in Picturing Mississippi, 1817 2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise, the landmark exhibition interpreting Mississippi identity curated by the Museum on the occasion of the state's bicentennial.