Author: Monica M. White
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469643707
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
Freedom Farmers
Author: Monica M. White
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469643707
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469643707
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
Farmer Cooperatives
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Farmer Cooperatives in the United States
Author: United States. Farmer Cooperative Service
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Farmer Cooperatives in the United States
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
News for Farmer Cooperatives
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 768
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Statistics of Farmer Cooperatives, 1952-53
Author: Anne Lauretta Gessner
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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ISBN:
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Agricultural Cooperatives in the 21st Century
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428906517
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428906517
Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Organizations Serving Cooperatives
Author: C. H. Kirkman
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Legal Phases of Farmer Cooperatives
Author: United States. Farmer Cooperative Service
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
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Category : Agriculture, Cooperative
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Legal Phases of Farmer Cooperatives
Author: United States. Farmer Cooperative Service
Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural cooperative credit associations
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Category : Agricultural cooperative credit associations
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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