Description: Further DetailsTitle: Freedom FarmersCondition: NewSubtitle: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom MovementEAN: 9781469663890ISBN: 9781469663890Publisher: The University of North Carolina PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 02/28/2021Description: 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 235gAuthor: Monica M. WhiteContributor: LaDonna Redmond (Foreword by)Genre: Society & CultureBook Series: Justice, Power and PoliticsTopic: Social Sciences, Technology & Engineering, Science Nature & MathItem Width: 12mmRelease Year: 2021 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Freedom Farmers
Title: Freedom Farmers
Subtitle: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
EAN: 9781469663890
ISBN: 9781469663890
Release Date: 02/28/2021
Release Year: 2021
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: LaDonna Redmond (Foreword by)
Series: Justice, Power and Politics
Book Title: Freedom Farmers : Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Environmental Conservation & Protection, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2021
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Nature, Social Science
Item Weight: 8.5 Oz
Author: Monica M. White
Item Length: 8.5 in
Book Series: Justice, Power, and Politics Ser.
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
