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

Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 189 pages) : illustrations Series Justice, power, and politics Justice, power, and politics. 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 Notes 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 Notes 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. SUBJECT Federation of Southern Cooperatives fast Subject 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. 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 Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Redmond, LaDonna author of foreword LC no. 2018017919 ISBN 9781469643700 1469643707 9781469643717 1469643715

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