From Slavery to Sharecropping

Reproductive Racism in Danielle Evans’s “Harvest:” Black, Chicana, and White Motherhoods in the Context of Reproductive Rights Discourses

“…'stolen') Black people were forced to work on stolen land in the US, just as Latinx people have often been exposed to agricultural inequalities on land that used to belong to their ancestors, as in the California example mentioned byDavies (2006, p. 31) andLarsen (2017). SeeCrofts (1995) for an overview of the transition from slavery to sharecropping and its historical interpretations.5 For the purposes of this paper, I use class to refer to the financial background and purchasing power of the characters, that is, in accordance with how the protagonist uses it. It is to be noted, though, that Black feminists such as Angela Davis refer to class in Marxist terms (1983), while Cedric Robinson cautions against conflating the struggle of Black people with that of the non-Black lower classes(1983).…”