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RamsRead 2021
Resources for exploring topics in the 2021 RamsRead book, The Color of Food by Natasha Bowens.
Social Justice + Agriculture
- Edible Activist PodcastEdible Activist is a podcast where dynamic people of color in the food and agriculture space share personal food journeys, stories and perspectives that stem from the land. Hosted by Melissa L. Jones, she interviews a diverse group of everyday growers, farmers, artists, healers, and other extraordinary individuals, who exemplify activism in their own edible way. This show records and broadcasts LIVE on Full Service Radio from the lobby of the LINE DC in Adams Morgan, Washington DC.
- Food & Enslavement in Early AmericaDigital exhibition curated by Psyche Williams-Forson. Dr. Williams-Forson has published on her research of food practices as a window into culture in the Black community, from slavery to modern times.
- Soul Fire Farm's BibliographyList of resources most often cited by Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm. https://www.soulfirefarm.org/ Soul Fire Farm is an Afro-Indigenous centered community farm committed to uprooting racism and seeding sovereignty in the food system.
Freedom farmers : agricultural resistance and the black freedom movement by Table of 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.
Social Justice + Land
- 1619 Podcast, Episodes 5 & 6More than a century and a half after the promise of 40 acres and a mule, the story of black land ownership in America remains one of loss and dispossession. June and Angie Provost, who trace their family line to the enslaved workers on Louisiana’s sugar-cane plantations, know this story well.
- Ten Ways to Save Your Land2018 pamphlet by the Land Loss Prevention Project. The Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP) is a nonprofit, public interest law firm created by the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers in 1983 in response to its deep concern about the steep decline in the number of small farmers and minority landowners in North Carolina.
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People by Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism. Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity.
Biden Aid Plan for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers [Google News Feed]
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