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

The breakdown: Based on Hillary Jordan's 2008 novel, Rees» new film takes a sprawling look at two families in the 1940s - era Jim Crow South: the white McAllan family that owns the farm (members of which are played by Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jonathan Banks and Garrett Hedlund) and the Jacksons who are sharecroppers on it (Rob Morgan, Mary J. Blige and Jason Mitchell).

Not exact matches

The sharecropper would clear and farm the land and leave it planted with grass before moving on in search of more land; the campesino's function from the sixties on, then, basically has been that of «increasing the value of land that will later be occupied by the big cattlemen» (Slutsky, 100).

The son of a sharecropper, Glen Travis Campbell was born in Arkansas on 22nd April 1936, the seventh of 12 children.

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.

But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?

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.

Bluegrass music is at the heart of the film, as it was of «Bonnie and Clyde,» and there are images of chain gangs, sharecropper cottages, cotton fields, populist politicians, river baptisms, hobos on freight trains, patent medicines, 25 - watt radio stations and Klan rallies.

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.

The Jackson family may technically be able to come and go as they please, but in living on McAllen farm as sharecroppers who barely make enough money to scrape by, the prospects of freedom don't seem as potent as they could be.

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.

As one scholar put it, the term includes «hollows in the Appalachian Mountains, former sharecroppers» shacks in the Mississippi Delta, desolate Indian reservations on the Great Plains, and emerging colonia along the Rio Grande.»

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

The first of three volumes about Lewis» journey from sharecropper's son to U.S. senator, this exceptionally illustrated graphic novel focuses on his boyhood through his college years, when he met nonviolent activists who showed him a means of undermining segregation.

Told from the perspective of impetuous and inquisitive 10 - year - old orphan Sugar, Turpin's energetic performance depicts life on a Louisiana plantation in 1870, where sharecroppers work as slaves and newly acquired Chinese workers represent unwelcome competition.

Yvonne has ghost - written and co-written several top selling non-fiction titles, including: Rising up from the Blood: A Legacy Reclaimed — A Bridge Forward The Autobiography of Sarah Washington O'Neal Rush, The Great - Granddaughter of Booker T. Washington (Solid Rock Books) by Sarah Washington O'Neal Rush; Fighting for Your Life: The African American Criminal Justice Survival Guide (Amber Books) by John Elmore, Esq.; Led by the Spirit: A Sharecropper's Son Tells His Story of Love, Happiness, Success and Survival (Strickland Books) by Robuster Strickland; Let Them Play... The Story of the MGAA (MGAA Books) by John David; A Journey that Matters: Your Personal Living Legacy (Lyceum Group Books) by Erline Belton; The Messman: A World War II Hero Tells His Story of Survival and Segregation on the Battleship North Carolina (Quality Books) by Yvonne Rose and John Seagraves; and FREEZE: Just Think about It (More Than A Pro Books) by Levar Fisher.

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.

Her parents were sharecroppers and worked on their...

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.

BORN CIRCA 1853 - 55 on a cotton plantation in Benton, Ala., Traylor worked as a sharecropper after Emancipation.

SHAHN, Ben Sharecropper's children on Sunday, Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935 8 x 10 inches Gelatin silver print; printed c. 1935

His paintings in museum collections include Self - Portrait (1935), Sharecropper (1937), and On the Ranch (1941) at the Dallas Museum of Art; Where the Mountain Meets the Plains, at Southern Methodist University; and Oil Field Girls (1940), at the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin.

Born to a family of sharecroppers in Plainview, Ga., after serving in the Korean War, Andrews graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago and headed for New York where he practiced his craft on the Lower East Side.

Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School sits on Holmberg Road, named for an east - west sharecropper's trail cut through woods and farmland long before the Sawgrass Expressway existed.