Isbn: 9780991479733 - shared crop: life of a black tenant farmer during jim crow (7 Ergebnisse)

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Illustrated with extraordinary works by outsider artists,Shared Cropis a grippingcollection of stories about Shorty Lawsonand hisfamily,who lived in rural North CarolinaduringtheJim Crowera. Together the text and artwork paint a nuanced pictureof the daily life of a Black tenant farmer,with the Lawsons' own words providing the detail. Bathing without running water. Five buzzards following an exhausted man and mule. Identity, stored deep in her heart, released for racial reckoning. Shorty's story would be told in formal history asthat ofa laborer who fueled the tobacco economyfrom the 1950s to the 1970s.Yes, race and class constrained him, but his life was far richer, a character known throughout the community for his insistence that work was its own reward. Hisjoys, make-do innovations, command of his territory, andthe wayhe and Annie raised their childrenwere legendary. He dispelledmythsof white superiority, not by a calculated strategy, but rather by how he lived.Indoing so, he challenged his children, those who worked with him, and everyone who knew of him, Black and White, landed and tenants. To each he left a legacy of a shared crop of steadfast lessons that might well guide us through troubled times.…