Freedom farmers : agricultural resistance and the black freedom movement /

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: White, Monica M. (Monica Marie), 1967- (Author)
Other Authors: Redmond, LaDonna (author of foreword)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Series:Justice, power, and politics.
Subjects:
Freedom Farms Corporation (Sunflower County, Miss.)
North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative (Mound Bayou, Miss.)
Federation of Southern Cooperatives.
Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.
Federation of Southern Cooperatives
African Americans > Agriculture > History.
African Americans > Social conditions > History.
African Americans > Political activity > History.
Agriculture, Cooperative > United States > History.
Food sovereignty > United States.
Food supply > Political aspects > United States > History.
Black lives matter movement.
African Americans > Social conditions.
Noirs américains > Agriculture > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales.
Noirs américains > Activité politique > Histoire.
Souveraineté alimentaire > États-Unis.
Mouvement Black Lives Matter.
Aliments > Approvisionnement > Aspect politique > États-Unis > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
African Americans > Agriculture
African Americans > Social conditions
Agriculture, Cooperative
Black lives matter movement
Food sovereignty
Food supply > Political aspects
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
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
  • North Bolivar County Farmers Cooperative
  • The Federation of Southern Cooperatives
  • The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
  • Black farmers and black land matter.

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