"Kuimba" by Priscilla B. Shuler: The Divide of Wealth and...

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"Kuimba" by Priscilla B. Shuler: The Divide of Wealth and Class

Here’s something to chew on—by the 1920s, nearly 70% of Black farmers in the South were sharecroppers, working land they didn’t own and surrendering up to half of their crops to white landlords. That’s the world Ophelia and Marvin Smith live in, and Kuimba doesn’t shy away from showing just how deep that divide between wealth and poverty runs. Priscilla B. Shuler...

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