Race and Food: Agricultural Resistance in U.S. History

Leslie, Isaac Sohn; White, Monica M.

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“…Women are often able to overcome these challenges, but it is overwhelmingly those with the privileged racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic status to do so (Pilgeram, 2019;Sachs et al, 2016). Therefore, alternative agricultural movements offer narrow opportunities for mobility and exclude farmers whose identity intersects multiple forms of marginalization such as gender and race, sexuality, or socioeconomic status (Leslie, & White, 2018;Leslie, Wypler, & Bell, 2019;Wypler, 2018).…”

Section: Women In Sustainable Agriculturementioning

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Supporting Agricultural Resilience: The Value of Women Farmers' Communication Practices

Daigle

Heiss

2020

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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While women in the United States (U.S.) are increasingly entering into or being recognized for their role as farm operators, researchers argue that women farmers have been and continue to be under-recognized and researched. In the face of increasing environmental and financial challenges, as well as a variety of challenges related to domestic life, women farmers remain resilient. Buzzanell's (2010) resilience communication theory suggests that forming and maintaining communication networks is essential to resilience processes. Drawing on interviews with 35 U.S. women farmers, we argue that communication networking is valuable to food systems; specifically, these practices contributed to and reified the resilience of the individual farmers, their farm business, and the greater sustainable agriculture sector. Implications for women farmers as a community of practice, as well as organizations serving these populations, are discussed.

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Section: Women In Sustainable Agriculturementioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting Agricultural Resilience: The Value of Women Farmers' Communication Practices

Daigle

Heiss

2020

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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“…In addition, women have long experienced discrimination in land access and capital acquisition, especially through inheritance (Alsgaard 2012; Carter 2017; Pilgeram and Amos 2015), contributing to women-operated farms' smaller on average size than those operated by men (Hoppe and Korb 2013, iv). These dynamics are exacerbated for women of color (Leslie and White 2018). Taken together, women farmers receive fewer subsidies to support their farms.…”

Section: Women Farmers: Re-orienting Gender Relations On Farmsmentioning

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“…Leslie and White 2018). Food justice scholars have done important work documenting racism and resistance in areas critical to farmers' success, such as (to name just a few): land access(Daniel 2013;Gilbert, Sharp, and Felin 2002; Williams and Holt-Gim enez 2017), agricultural loans (Carpenter 2012; Feder and Cowan 2013; Nier 2007), U.S. Farm Bill allocations (Ayazi and Elsheikh 2015), land-grant universities (Peña 2015), farm worker health (Baker and Chappelle 2012; Minkoff-Zern 2014) and working conditions (Bauer and Stewart 2013; Bon App etit Management Company Foundation and United Farm Workers 2011; Daniel 1982; Holmes 2013; Mize and Swords 2010).…”

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Relational Agriculture: Gender, Sexuality, and Sustainability in U.S. Farming

Leslie

Wypler

Bell

2019

Society & Natural Resources

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Although 97% of U.S. farms are "family-owned," little research examines how gender and sexual relationshipsinherent in familial dynamicsinfluence farmers' practices and livelihoods. Gender and sexual dynamicsshaped by race and classaffect who is considered a farmer, land management decisions, and access to resources like land, subsidies, and knowledge. We use feminist and queer lenses to illuminate how today's agricultural gender and sexual relations are not "natural," but when left uninterrogated are constructed in ways that harm women and queer farmers while limiting potential to develop sustainable practices. Women and queer farmers also resist, "re-orienting" gender and sexual relations in ways that expand possibilities for achieving food justice and ecological sustainability. We offer "relational agriculture" as a tool for making visible and reorienting gender and sexual relations on farms. Relational agriculture brings sexuality into food justice and demonstrates the centrality of gender and sexuality to agricultural sustainability.

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“…Political‐economic constraints such as farmland access loom large. Such constraints are especially prominent for racialized and Indigenous agrarians who have been excluded from intergenerational land inheritance due to ongoing legacies of systemic discrimination and dispossession (Leslie and White 2018). Among new and beginning principal producers in the United States, 94.8 percent are white (USDA 2019b:89).…”

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Bridging Agrarianism: The Potential of Value‐Added Craft Cider Production to Support Rural Livelihoods in the Pacific Northwest*

Weiler

2021

Rural Sociology

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Against the decades‐long trend of aging farmers and farmland consolidation in the United States and Canada, value‐added farm production has been pitched as a lifeline to provide viable rural livelihoods for younger generations. How do producers perceive the possibilities and limitations of value‐added craft production in supporting agrarian livelihoods? More broadly, how are contemporary structural constraints and cultural shifts shaping new agrarian strategies? This article draws on in‐depth interviews and ethnographic data with urban and farm‐based cidermakers in the Pacific Northwest (British Columbia, Washington State, and Oregon). I find that while craft cider has helped buffer some producers against the volatility of selling raw fruit to large commodity markets, the benefits of this niche market do not widely support continued primary production or farm succession. I underscore the emergence of a livelihood strategy I refer to as “bridging agrarianism” among young cidermakers who wish to maintain a connection to agriculture but are shifting away from full‐time farming due to lifestyle preferences and economic constraints. Bridging agrarianism is manifest in modest forms of on‐site production that carry great symbolic weight. This study provides insight into how current generations of agriculturalists are developing new strategic responses to the political‐economic challenges of farming.

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Race and Food: Agricultural Resistance in U.S. History

Cited by 20 publications

References 68 publications

Supporting Agricultural Resilience: The Value of Women Farmers' Communication Practices

Supporting Agricultural Resilience: The Value of Women Farmers' Communication Practices

Relational Agriculture: Gender, Sexuality, and Sustainability in U.S. Farming

Bridging Agrarianism: The Potential of Value‐Added Craft Cider Production to Support Rural Livelihoods in the Pacific Northwest*

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