Farming While Black

Paperback368 pagesDimensions: 8 x 10 inches Care about food sovereignty? Believe in racial equity? Want to understand the political dynamics of the American food system? Leah Penniman is a FORCE and Soul Fire Farm is an inspiration to us all. Take the step to making social and racial justice part of your food security efforts and knowledge by reading this book. Help change this broken system.  If you work in food security efforts, specifically with an underrepresented community, and would like to make this part of your organization's library and resources, please contact us for a donation. FROM THE PUBLISHER James Beard Foundation Leadership Award 2019: Leah Penniman Choice Reviews, Outstanding Academic Title In 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