Sentences with word «sharecropping»

Life was so desperately hard for sharecropping families in the area that such an arrangement may have been possible.

It bites off a lot, between examining the racial divide in the South, the hardship of sharecropping on all sides, and the fear and confusion of returning from war with post-traumatic stress disorder that everyone thinks is just weakness or a phase you can get over.

Hi Brian, we have addressed digital sharecropping in several other posts on this blog.

To complete their portfolios, students had to answer questions after each chapter of the book, and also read background knowledge about issues in the novel, such as sharecropping and Jim Crowe laws.

The produce is sharecropped with the farmlette host and provided to the immediate community through local S.N.A.P. Certified Farmer's Market and to local vendors.

Laura is the husband of Henry (Jason Clarke), who moves the family to the Mississippi Delta, where they take the lease on a farm, on which Hap Jackson (Rob Morgan) and his wife, Florence (Mary J Blige), try to make ends meet sharecropping on their own tiny plot.

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.

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.

Uber isn't the only company to resurrect sharecropping in modern industries.

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.

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 the face of poverty and strained race relations, he maintained an unshakable entrepreneurial spirit and refused to remain in a subservient sharecropping situation.

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

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.

Earlier this year, D'Arcy Norman wrote about social network sharecropping.

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

Update: It also strikes me that compelling students to publish content into institutional repositories and course management systems is tantamount to forced sharecropping.

Tech critic Nicholas Carr has called this «digital sharecropping.»

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

From San Diego Union - Tribune Take them from what Steven Greenhut called, indentured servitude, actually comparing it to sharecropping where people worked the farms, but could never own the farms,...

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

The produce grown here will be sharecropped with the Callahan Oak's residents and the access will be provided to the community at Parramore's SNAP certified Farmers» Market.

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).

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

Blige, a supporting actress nominee, will perform «Mighty River» from the sharecropping drama «Mudbound,» a song she co-wrote with Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson.

A good education was not easy to achieve growing up in a sharecropping family, facing extreme poverty, racial inequality in the rural South, and living in a home with 12 mouths to feed.

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.

1944 - 1947 Although education past the seventh grade is severely discouraged in the sharecropping system, Andrews» mother, Viola, determined that her children will make it through high school, works out an arrangement in which Andrews will attend school when it is not possible to work in the fields.