Freedom farmers : agricultural resistance and the black freedom movement / Monica M. White.
2018
E185.86 .W38756 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Freedom farmers : agricultural resistance and the black freedom movement / Monica M. White.
ISBN
9781469643694 (hardcover)
1469643693 (hardcover)
9781469643700 (electronic book)
1469643693 (hardcover)
9781469643700 (electronic book)
Published
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Language
English
Description
xviii, 189 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Call Number
E185.86 .W38756 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.896/073
Summary
"Expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern black farmers and the organizations they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of black people, this book reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-184) and index.
Series
Justice, power, and politics.
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Table of Contents
Land, food, and freedom: black farmers, agriculture, and resistance
Intellectual traditions in black agriculture: Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Collective agency and community resilience in action
A pig and a garden: Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms Cooperative
Bypass the middlemen and feed the community: North Bolivar County Farmers Cooperative
Agricultural self-determination on a regional scale: the Federation of Southern Cooperatives
Drawing on the past toward a food sovereign future: the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Black farmers and black land matter.
Intellectual traditions in black agriculture: Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and W. E. B. Du Bois
Collective agency and community resilience in action
A pig and a garden: Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms Cooperative
Bypass the middlemen and feed the community: North Bolivar County Farmers Cooperative
Agricultural self-determination on a regional scale: the Federation of Southern Cooperatives
Drawing on the past toward a food sovereign future: the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Black farmers and black land matter.