i put together a list of readings on the history of agriculture, food & food justice in black communities in america that i’ve been working through, thought i’d share it here in case others are interested:
“Black Communities Have Always Used Food as Protest” by Amethyst Ganaway
“Restaurants Must Use This Moment to Change, Too” by Amethyst Ganaway
“Cooking Up Change: How Food Helped Fuel The Civil Rights Movement” by Nancy Schute
“How to Eat to Live: Black Nationalism and the Post-1964 Culinary Turn” by Jennifer Jensen Wallach
“There were nearly a million black farmers in 1920. Why have they disappeared?” by Summer Sewell
“The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms” by Vann R. Newkirk II
“Their Family Bought Land One Generation After Slavery. The Reels Brothers Spent Eight Years in Jail for Refusing to Leave It.” by Lizzie Presser
@/NFUDC (National Farmers Union): How to fight racism in agriculture (twitter thread dated June 2, 2020)
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books (**full text available for free)
**Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Monica M. White
**Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability ed. Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman
**Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C. by Ashanté M. Reese
**Dispossession: Discrimination against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights by Peter Daniel
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty
Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power by Psyche A. Williams-Forson
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith A. Carney & Black Rice by Judith A. Carney
Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning by Rafia Zafar
Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution by Frederick Douglass Opie
Every Nation Has Its Dish: Black Bodies and Black Food in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer Jensen Wallach
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Sporkful – When White People Say Plantation & When Black Chefs Created Plantation Food
The Kitchen Sisters / Hidden Kitchens – Hercules and Hemings: African American Cooks in the President’s Kitchen
– King’s Candy: A New Orleans Kitchen Vision
– Georgia Gilmore and the Club from Nowhere: A Secret Civil Rights Kitchen
1619 – Episode 5: The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1 & Part 2
Chef’s Table – 6x01: Mashama Bailey (on Netflix)
The Ultimate List of Black Owned Farms & Food Gardens
A Reading List For Learning About Anti-Black Racism and Food
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