“Returning Home to Our Rightful Place”: The Nation of Islam and Muhammad Farms

McCutcheon, Priscilla

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.05.001

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“…Muhammad, 1967;Witt, 1999). Black nationalist groups such as the Nation of Islam (NOI) reject soul food as a tool of white oppression advocating that blacks reclaim their identity in part through food (Gardell, 1996;McCutcheon, 2013;Muhammad, 1967). For the NOI, soul food and in particular pork are indicative of black Christianity, a religion that they believe does not directly confront the racial oppression of black people (Gardell, 1996).…”

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Food, faith, and the everyday struggle for black urban community

McCutcheon

2014

Social & Cultural Geography

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Black churches have received little attention in geographic scholarship. This article employs archival and textual research, extensive participant observation, and semistructured open-ended interviews with volunteers to examine the day-to-day actions and overall goals of a historically prominent black Protestant church in Atlanta, GA, USA. Specifically, the volunteer-run emergency food program is understood as a black geography riddled with contradictions that reveal the complexity of black people more broadly. 'Emergency soul food' is an imperfect yet complicated short-term solution for those coming in to be served. Outside of the food program, volunteers' hopes and dreams for Auburn Avenue are based on a romantic remembrance of the neighborhood. Ultimately, their prescriptions for the future are a mixture of black socially conservative values and visions to create an alternative black geography with affordable housing for all. Alimentation, foi et lutte quotidienne pour une communauté urbaine noireLes églises noires ont rec u très peu d'attention dans la recherche géographique. Cet article utilise la recherche d'archives et de documents, l'observation considérable des participants et des entretiens en format ouvert et semi-structuré avec des volontaires pour examiner les actions quotidiennes et les objectifs dans leur ensemble d'une église protestante noire historiquement prépondérante à Atlanta, dans l'état de Géorgie aux Etats-Unis. En particulier, le programme alimentaire d'urgence organisé par des volontaires est considéré comme une géographie noire pleine de contradictions qui révèle les contradictions des Noirs plus généralement. « Emergency soul food » est une solution imparfaite et pourtant compliquée à court-terme pour ceux qui viennent s'y servir. En dehors du programme d'alimentation, les espoirs et les rêves des volontaires pour Auburn Avenue reposent sur un souvenir romantique du voisinage. En fin de compte, leurs recommandations pour l'avenir sont un mélange de valeurs et de visions des Noirs socialement conservatrices afin de créer une géographie noire alternative avec un logement abordable pour tous.Mots-clés: geografías afroamericanas; iglesia afroamericana; alimentos de emergencia; comida para el alma; identidad racial La comida, la fe y la lucha diaria para la comunidad afroamericana urbana las iglesias dentro de la comunidad afroamericana han recibido poca atención en los estudios geográficos. A través de una investigación archivística y textual, de una extensa observación a participantes y de entrevistas abiertas y semi-estructuradas con voluntarios, este trabajo examina las acciones cotidianas y los objetivos generales de una prominente iglesia protestante afroamericana en Atlanta, Georgia, EE.UU. En concreto, el programa de alimentación de emergencia voluntario se entiende como una geografía afroamericana plagada de contradicciones que revela las contradicciones de la gente afroamericana más ampliamente. "La comida de emergencia para el alma" es una solución imperfecta y complicada a cort...

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Food, faith, and the everyday struggle for black urban community

McCutcheon

2014

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Black gardening is thus "a way to stake a claim to permanency, education, economic citizenship, and community leadership, rather than only as a vehicle for food security" (Tuck, Smith, Guess, Benjamin, & Jones, 2014, p. 55). Indeed, gifting, sharing, and trading garden produce between Black gardeners has traditionally "reinforced community bonds and preserved tangible links" (Wiese, 2005, p. 85) not only to an African American agrarian heritage in the South but also to Black liberation struggles and the Blues development tradition, more broadly (Figueroa, 2015;Heynen, 2009b;McCutcheon, 2013;Ramírez, 2015;Rickford, 2017;White, 2011b). These affective stories served as "both a critique of the breakdown of Black community life and as inspiration for reclaiming a past of cooperative living that was seemingly lost."…”

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Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

McClintock

2018

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Recent scholarship on urban agriculture (UA)—the production of food in cities—argues that UA can both undergird and resist capitalist accumulation, albeit often at different spatio‐temporal scales. Scholarship that explicitly examines how UA, capitalist development, and racial difference work through one another, however, is less extensive. In this review, I propose that the lens of racial capitalism can elucidate UA's contradictory motivations and outcomes. As an analytical framework, racial capitalism considers how distinct forms of colonization, settler colonialism, and White supremacy function relationally as part of a unified system of capitalist accumulation built on the exploitation of racialized human and spatial difference. By focusing on UA's contributions to racial Othering, the racialization of space, and dispossession, on the one hand, and on struggles of resistance and self‐determination, on the other, this review attempts to sheds new light on the dialectical, “both/and” nature of UA, while also addressing recent calls to consider how settler colonial logics persist in the contemporary North American city.

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“…They work toward autonomy, self-reliance, liberation, and community improvement for minorities through the medium of food (McCutcheon, 2011(McCutcheon, , 2013. They demand a right to food, linking democracy, environmental justice, and citizenship (Miewald and McCann, 2013).…”

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Alternative food provision conflicts in cities: Contesting food privilege, injustice, and whiteness in Jamaica Plain, Boston

Anguelovski

2015

Geoforum

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“Returning Home to Our Rightful Place”: The Nation of Islam and Muhammad Farms

Cited by 34 publications

References 10 publications

Food, faith, and the everyday struggle for black urban community

Food, faith, and the everyday struggle for black urban community

Urban agriculture, racial capitalism, and resistance in the settler‐colonial city

Alternative food provision conflicts in cities: Contesting food privilege, injustice, and whiteness in Jamaica Plain, Boston

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