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Author White, Monica M. (Monica Marie), 1967- author.

Title Freedom farmers : agricultural resistance and the black freedom movement / Monica M. White.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages) : illustrations.
Series Justice, power, and politics
Justice, power, and politics.
Note 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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. provider's description
Note Print version record.
Subject Freedom Farms Corporation (Sunflower County, Miss.)
North Bolivar County Farm Cooperative (Mound Bayou, Miss.)
Federation of Southern Cooperatives.
Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.
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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies.
Federation of Southern Cooperatives. (OCoLC)fst00693570
African Americans -- Agriculture. (OCoLC)fst01750326
African Americans -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799698
Agriculture, Cooperative. (OCoLC)fst00801781
Black lives matter movement. (OCoLC)fst01940193
Food sovereignty. (OCoLC)fst01745639
Food supply -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00931219
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Redmond, LaDonna, author of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: White, Monica M. (Monica Marie), 1967- Freedom fighters. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] 9781469643694 (DLC) 2018017919 (OCoLC)1032289567
ISBN 9781469643700 (electronic book)
1469643707 (electronic book)
9781469643717 (electronic book)
1469643715 (electronic book)
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