Sentences with phrase «black sharecropping»
In the voice - over that introduces his character, Hap Jackson, patriarch of a black sharecropping family, laments that African - Americans are barred from land ownership through a combination of generational poverty and white plunder, drawing a direct connection between the racist oppression of former slaves and their lack of access to capital.
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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.