Freedom farmers : agricultural resistance and the black freedom movement / Monica M. White.
"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...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Justice, power, and politics.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| 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"-- In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural and economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, and political resistance. Life on the cooperative farm presented an alternative to the second wave of northern migration by African Americans--an opportunity to stay in the South, live off the land, and create a healthy community based upon building an alternative food system as a cooperative and collective effort. Freedom Farmers 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. |
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| Item Description: | A previous version of chapter 2 was published in a different form as " 'A Pig and a Garden': Fannie Lou Hamer and the Freedom Farms Cooperative," Food and Foodways: Explorations in the History and Culture of Human Nourishment 25, no. 1 (2017): 20–39. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9798890853271 |