This book unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Bobby J. Smith II re-examines the Mississippi civil rights movement as a period when activists expanded the meaning of civil rights to address food as integral to sociopolitical and economic conditions. For decades, white economic and political actors used food as a weapon against Black sharecropping communities in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, but members of these communities collaborated with activists to transform food into a tool of...

This book unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Bobby J. Smith II re-examines the Mississippi civil rights movement as a period when activists expanded the meaning of civil rights to address food as integral to sociopolitical and economic conditions. For decades, white economic and political actors used food as a weapon against Black sharecropping communities in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, but members of these communities collaborated with activists to transform food into a tool of...

Looking deeply into Black women's roles - economically, environmentally, and socially - in food and agriculture systems in the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States, the contributors to this volume address the ways Black women, both now and in the past, have used food as a part of community building and sustenance.

Looking deeply into Black women's roles - economically, environmentally, and socially - in food and agriculture systems in the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States, the contributors to this volume address the ways Black women, both now and in the past, have used food as a part of community building and sustenance.