Sentences with phrase «of sharecropping»

The rules and demands of sharecropping life left little time for play, and work quickly overshadowed school.

The Southerner — The first American Jean Renoir film I've seen, it's the simple story of a sharecropping family trying to survive.

Uber's latest scheme is a new spin on the age - old practice of sharecropping.

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Cattle - ranching in Nicaragua has been conducted traditionally in the form of land - leasing and sharecropping, which the great landowners have given to the campesino (Slutsky, 100).

My mama tells the story that when I was a gangly four - year - old kid, they hauled my kid brother and sister and I, down to a panhandle town named Hereford, Texas, for a handful of months, and my dad sharecropped cotton with this farmer west of town.

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.

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.

In what is sure to become a classic, the bestselling author of Living Faith and Sources of Strength writes about the powerful rhythms of countryside and community in a sharecropping economy.

In his early works from the 1960s, Andrews looked back on his personal history — he was raised in a large, poor sharecropping family in rural Georgia — weaving his experiences together with formal cues taken from the art of that day to create fresh, new experiences.

Daniel Grant describes the relationship between Jackson Pollock and his dealer in terms that bring to mind sharecropping where, if the farmer fell behind in the value of his output, he built up debts that bound him to the land.

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

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