This current event essay will focus on Oprah Winfrey’s Queen Sugar, based off Natalie Baszile’s novel titled Queen Sugar. This show is about a land plot of sugar cane in southern Louisiana, its exchange between two families and the present generation of the families caring and fight over it. This show is relevant to today’s general viewership, Black community and this course for various reasons. Queen Sugar provides a fresh and new concept to the general viewership, it gives a new perspective of and to the Black community which is important and it’s relevant to this class because it’s based on historical facts of Black share croppers turn land owners and their struggle. This essay will tie the facts learned in this history class with the overall plot of this television series.
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The show focuses on them as they try and navigate through their personal issues and trials all while attempting to bring in the sugar cane harvest on time. As they endure the growing pains of life, they uncover the mysteries their land holds. The secrets they find out, change the game for them, they discover why a particular family (Boudreaux and Landry, the same family) try so hard to buy their (Bordolen’s) family land.
Going back many generations the families Boudreaux and Landry once own the land and the Bordelon family, and they (Boudreaux’s and Landry’s) wanted the land back with a vengeance. They tormented the Bordolen family for years attempting to gain this land back. Present day in the show, the Boudreaux’s/ Landry’s make it difficult for the three siblings to develop their harvest and prosper off their land. But, after the Bordolen’s find out the truth and the history behind the families and the land they become even more determined to hold on to the land and achieve
The show focuses on them as they try and navigate through their personal issues and trials all while attempting to bring in the sugar cane harvest on time. As they endure the growing pains of life, they uncover the mysteries their land holds. The secrets they find out, change the game for them, they discover why a particular family (Boudreaux and Landry, the same family) try so hard to buy their (Bordolen’s) family land.
Going back many generations the families Boudreaux and Landry once own the land and the Bordelon family, and they (Boudreaux’s and Landry’s) wanted the land back with a vengeance. They tormented the Bordolen family for years attempting to gain this land back. Present day in the show, the Boudreaux’s/ Landry’s make it difficult for the three siblings to develop their harvest and prosper off their land. But, after the Bordolen’s find out the truth and the history behind the families and the land they become even more determined to hold on to the land and achieve