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Monica M. White: Freedom farmers: Agricultural resistance and the Black freedom movement

Monica M. White: Freedom farmers: Agricultural resistance and the Black freedom movement Agriculture and Human Values (2021) 38:345–346 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-020-10180-z Monica M. White: Freedom farmers: Agricultural resistance and the Black freedom movement The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina/The United States, 2018, 189 pp, ISBN [978-1-4696-4369-4] Fiona C. Doherty Accepted: 29 October 2020 / Published online: 10 November 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020 Amid the Black Lives Matter movement and a time of “economic autonomy” [‘(p. 10)’] by creating independent growing civil unrest throughout the United States, Monica economic systems outside of federal currency. White makes White’s Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the a clear distinction between these “everyday strategies of Black Freedom Movement provides an inspiring narrative resistance” [‘(p. 6)’] and the more organized social move- of a lesser-known method of nonviolent action known as ments which, she states, tend to overshadow them. Every- “liberatory agriculture” [‘(p. 143)’]. White gives voice to day strategies of resistance are less disruptive and involve an agricultural history that has been erased from all levels fewer people but can be equally as constructive by bolstering of traditional education and popular media. By doing so, she autonomy and self-reliance. restores the powerful legacy of people of color in agriculture The first part of Freedom Farmers provides http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Monica M. White: Freedom farmers: Agricultural resistance and the Black freedom movement

Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 38 (1) – Nov 10, 2020

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Agriculture and Human Values (2021) 38:345–346 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-020-10180-z Monica M. White: Freedom farmers: Agricultural resistance and the Black freedom movement The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina/The United States, 2018, 189 pp, ISBN [978-1-4696-4369-4] Fiona C. Doherty Accepted: 29 October 2020 / Published online: 10 November 2020 © Springer Nature B.V. 2020 Amid the Black Lives Matter movement and a time of “economic autonomy” [‘(p. 10)’] by creating independent growing civil unrest throughout the United States, Monica economic systems outside of federal currency. White makes White’s Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the a clear distinction between these “everyday strategies of Black Freedom Movement provides an inspiring narrative resistance” [‘(p. 6)’] and the more organized social move- of a lesser-known method of nonviolent action known as ments which, she states, tend to overshadow them. Every- “liberatory agriculture” [‘(p. 143)’]. White gives voice to day strategies of resistance are less disruptive and involve an agricultural history that has been erased from all levels fewer people but can be equally as constructive by bolstering of traditional education and popular media. By doing so, she autonomy and self-reliance. restores the powerful legacy of people of color in agriculture The first part of Freedom Farmers provides

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