Sentences with phrase «sharecropping families»

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

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

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 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.