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No longer was putting on one's face seen as a matter of individuality, dignity, or even racial advancement (moving to Northern cities in the Great Migration of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, many former sharecroppers saw applying cosmetics as a step toward participating in the wider American culture).
With 90 percent of them estimated to lose money, extending their margin calls on their Visa bills, they're modern-day sharecroppers of a sort, indebted to the dot-com company store known as an online brokerage.
Thus, Spaniards would be happier if they still dressed in black and let narrow-minded priests run their lives, and residents of the American South would be happier if planters still sipped mint juleps, wore white suits, and accepted traditional deference from sharecroppers ...
This fresh take on the region should disabuse anyone who still imagines the South as a Gothic amalgam of Deliverance , Gone With the Wind , and Walker Evans photos of hollow-eyed sharecroppers.
Bradley, the son of sharecroppers and the grandson of slaves, was mayor from 1973 to 1993.