Author: United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
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.
Why David Sometimes Wins
Author: Marshall Ganz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199757852
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Offering insight from a longtime movement organizer and scholar, Ganz illustrates how they had the ability and resourcefulness to devise good strategy and turn short-term advantages into long-term gains.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199757852
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Why David Sometimes Wins tells the story of Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers' groundbreaking victory, drawing important lessons from this dramatic tale. Offering insight from a longtime movement organizer and scholar, Ganz illustrates how they had the ability and resourcefulness to devise good strategy and turn short-term advantages into long-term gains.
Farming for Us All
Author: Michael Mayerfeld Bell
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271046327
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Farming for Us All gives us the opportunity to explore the possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that practical, dialogic agriculture presents.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271046327
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Farming for Us All gives us the opportunity to explore the possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that practical, dialogic agriculture presents.
Political Dynamics of Transnational Agrarian Movements
Author: Marc Edelman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552668177
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
"The prayers of those of us who have long hungered for a comprehensive, historically deep, learned and accessible account of international agrarian movements have finally been answered in full. We will long be in debt to Edelman and Borras for this exceptional and lasting contribution to agrarian scholarship." - James C. Scott, founding Director, Yale University Agrarian Studies Program, author of The Art of Not Being Governed
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781552668177
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
"The prayers of those of us who have long hungered for a comprehensive, historically deep, learned and accessible account of international agrarian movements have finally been answered in full. We will long be in debt to Edelman and Borras for this exceptional and lasting contribution to agrarian scholarship." - James C. Scott, founding Director, Yale University Agrarian Studies Program, author of The Art of Not Being Governed
The Handbook of Texas
Author: Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.
Farm Organizations
Author: United States Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
A History of the Origin, Aims, and Progress of the Farmers' Movement
Author: Jonathan Periam
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368826778
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368826778
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
California Farm Organizations
Author: Clarke A. Chambers
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural societies
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural societies
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Kansas-Nebraska Cattle Feedlot Industry
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural extension work
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Proceedings of the Annual Convention
Author: National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
Book Description