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Farming While Black

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Farming While Black Soul Fire Farming's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land Leah Penniman; foreword by Karen WashingtonChelsea Green, 2018ISBN 9781603587617 Softcover, 368 pp.10.0 X 8.0 X 0.8 inches | 2.2 pounds Recipient of the 28th Heinz Awards for the Economy: Leah PennimanJames Beard Foundation Leadership Award 2019: Leah PennimanChoice Reviews, Outstanding Academic Title“An extraordinary book…part agricultural guide, part revolutionary manifesto.”—VOGUENamed a “Best Book on Sustainable Living and Sustainability” by Book RiotIn 1920, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people—a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. While farm management is among the whitest of professions, farm labor is predominantly brown and exploited, and people of color disproportionately live in “food apartheid” neighborhoods and suffer from diet-related illness. The system is built on

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