el-waylly:

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:

articles/lists

• “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)
  

• Want to See Food and Land Justice for Black Americans? Support These Groups.
• 21 Individuals and Organizations Building Stronger Black Communities and Food Systems

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

podcasts / television

• 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)

further reading lists

• The Ultimate List of Black Owned Farms & Food Gardens
  
• A Reading List For Learning About Anti-Black Racism and Food
• A Black History Month Reading List Centered Around Food and Farming
  
• 47 Food Studies Books, Not Just for Black History Month
  
• A Food Justice Reading List