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Author | : Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 215 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 026235585X |
An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. Although the majority of farms in the United States have US-born owners who identify as white, a growing number of new farmers are immigrants, many of them from Mexico, who originally came to the United States looking for work in agriculture. In The New American Farmer, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern explores the experiences of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners, offering a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. She finds that many of these new farmers rely on farming practices from their home countries—including growing multiple crops simultaneously, using integrated pest management, maintaining small-scale production, and employing family labor—most of which are considered alternative farming techniques in the United States. Drawing on extensive interviews with farmers and organizers, Minkoff-Zern describes the social, economic, and political barriers immigrant farmers must overcome, from navigating USDA bureaucracy to racialized exclusion from opportunities. She discusses, among other topics, the history of discrimination against farm laborers in the United States; the invisibility of Latino/a farmers to government and universities; new farmers' sense of agrarian and racial identity; and the future of the agrarian class system. Minkoff-Zern argues that immigrant farmers, with their knowledge and experience of alternative farming practices, are—despite a range of challenges—actively and substantially contributing to the movement for an ecological and sustainable food system. Scholars and food activists should take notice.
Author | : Pete Daniel |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2013-03-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469602024 |
Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, historian Pete Daniel analyzes this decline and chronicles black farmers' fierce struggles to remain on the land in the face of discrimination by bureaucrats in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He exposes the shameful fact that at the very moment civil rights laws promised to end discrimination, hundreds of thousands of black farmers lost their hold on the land as they were denied loans, information, and access to the programs essential to survival in a capital-intensive farm structure. More than a matter of neglect of these farmers and their rights, this "passive nullification" consisted of a blizzard of bureaucratic obfuscation, blatant acts of discrimination and cronyism, violence, and intimidation. Dispossession recovers a lost chapter of the black experience in the American South, presenting a counternarrative to the conventional story of the progress achieved by the civil rights movement.
Author | : St John De Crevecoeur |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2015-02-19 |
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ISBN | : 9781296311315 |
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Author | : Michael Mayerfeld Bell |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2010-11-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780271046327 |
Farming for Us All gives us the opportunity to explore the possibilities for social, environmental, and economic change that practical, dialogic agriculture presents.
Author | : John S. Skinner |
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Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1829 |
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Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1819 |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1822 |
Genre | : Agriculture |
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4th ser., v. 1-4 includes the Proceedings of the 1st-11th annual meetings (1848-58) of the Maryland State Agricultural Society.
Author | : R. W. Roskelley |
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Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Social Science |
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Author | : John S. Skinner, Editor |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1823 |
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Author | : Saml. Sands And Son |
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Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1876 |
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