Freedom farmers : agricultural resistance and the Black Freedom Movement / / Monica M. White, foreword by LaDonna Redmond
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| Autore: |
White Monica M (Monica Marie), <1967->
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| Titolo: |
Freedom farmers : agricultural resistance and the Black Freedom Movement / / Monica M. White, foreword by LaDonna Redmond
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2018] |
| ©2018 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 305.896/073 |
| 305.896073 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Black lives matter movement |
| Food supply - Political aspects - United States - History | |
| Food sovereignty - United States | |
| Agriculture, Cooperative - United States - History | |
| African Americans - Political activity - History | |
| African Americans - Social conditions - History | |
| African Americans - Agriculture - History | |
| Agriculture | |
| Farmers | |
| African American farmers | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | RedmondLaDonna |
| Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 2018. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In the late 1960s, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased 40 acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms Cooperative (FFC). A community-based rural & economic development project, FFC would grow to over 600 acres, offering a means for local sharecroppers, tenant farmers, & domestic workers to pursue community wellness, self-reliance, & 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, & create a healthy community based upon building an alternative food system as a cooperative & collective effort. 'Freedom Farmers' expands the historical narrative of the black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, & contributions of southern black farmers & the organizations they formed. 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Agricultural resistance and the Black Freedom Movement |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Freedom farmers |
| ISBN: | 9798890853271 |
| 9781469643717 | |
| 1469643715 | |
| 9781469643700 | |
| 1469643707 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9911026065203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Justice, power, and politics.