We are each other's harvest : celebrating African American farmers, land, and legacy / Natalie Baszile.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baszile, Natalie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American farmers.

African Americans--Agriculture.

Agriculture--United States--History.

Agriculture.

United States.

History.

African Americans--Biography.

Social history.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]

Summary:

"In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, photographs, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine black people's connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. In the 1920s, there were over one million black farmers; today there are just 45,000. Baszile explores this crisis, through the farmers' personal experiences. In their own words, middle aged and elderly black farmers explain why they continue to farm despite systemic discrimination and land loss. The Returning Generation--young farmers, who are building upon the legacy of their ancestors, talk about the challenges they face as they seek to redress issues of food justice, food sovereignty, and reparations."-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Foreword / by Natalie Baszile

Introduction / by Dr. Analena Hope Hassberg

Those winter Sundays / by Robert Hayden

Everyone beneath their own vine and fig tree : a remembering in seven parts / by Michael Twitty

Handed the rain / by Ed Roberson

Writing Queen Sugar / by Natalie Baszile

Excerpt from Black and White: the way I see it / by Richard Williams

Resilience and reinvention / with Stanley Hughes and Linda Leach

Little farm, big dreams / with Kamal Bell

Black to the land / by Leah Penniman

Cutting greens / by Lucille Clifton

The last plantation : the USDA's racist operation system / by Pete Daniel

Father and daughter / with Harper and Ashley Armstrong

To the fig tree on 9th and Christian / by Ross Gay

On top of Moon Mountain / with Brenae Royal

Money talk / with Clif Sutton and Dexter Faison

Barking / by Lenard D. Moore

Dispossessed : their family bought land one generation after slavery. The Reels brothers spent eight years in jail for refusing to leave it / by Lizzie Presser

Louisiana daughters : a conversation with Lalita Tademy and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Queen Sugar, Chapter 10 / by Natalie Baszile

Frame / by Robin Coste Lewis

America at the crossroads : a history of enslavement and land /by Clyde Ford

Field Day at the Hill Place / with Odis Hill

Equal ground / with Willie Earl Nelson Sr. and sons

Fearless / by Tim Seibles

Four days in Alaskan Farm School / with Melony Edwards

No better life / with the Blueforts

Ancestral vibrations guide our connection to the land / by Jim Embry

Remember / by Joy Harjo

Family ties / with Esmeralda and Antonio Sandoval

How to make rain / by Kevin Young

Miss Rose's dirty rice / by Natalie Baszile

A new country / with Dorcas Young

Raised and rooted / with Deric Harper

Making space / with Moretta Browne

Call me by my name / by Harryette Mullen

Wheel of fortune / with Martha Calderon

Exceeding the "yes" / with Marvin Frink

Swarm / by Tonya Foster

A brief history of tobacco / by Natalie Baszile

After tobacco / with the Wrights

Yellowjackets / by Yusef Komunyakaa

Home games / with Kellye Walker and Werten Bellamy

Butter / by Elizabeth Alexander

A love letter to future generations / by Naima Penniman

Inside Queen Sugar: Jason Wilborn reflects of his years in the Queen Sugar Writer's Room / by Natalie Baszile

The Boudin Trail / by Natalie Baszile

Black Harvest Fund.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-343).

ISBN:

9780062932563

006293256X

OCLC:

1243269201