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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"black farmers"”.
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Negotiating freedom: the free black farmers of Jonkershoek, 1697-1710
… century, a section of Cape Town's ‘free black' (vrijzwart) population, a group comprised primarily of formerly enslaved people, took up farming in the Jonkershoek Valley of Stellenbosch. Despite initial prosperity, these free black farmers ceased to exist as an independent socio-political …
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Market participation of commercial Black farmers in Gauteng Province, South Africa.
… produce is important amongst commercial Black farmers as a mechanism contributor in rural employment and income generation. In South Africa, most commercial Black farmers are characterised by poor market participation through lack of land ownership and as a result, reduced investment on …
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Land Access as Liberation: A Qualitative Study on Faith, Food, and Farming of Urban and Rural Black Land Stewards in the United States
<p>Since 1920, Black farmers in the United States have held less than 2% of the nation's farmland, a direct result of race-based discriminatory policies embedded within federal, state, local, and county-level institutions (Daniel, 2013). Structural barriers—ranging from exclusionary lending …
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Michigan Black farm owners perceptions about farm ownership credit acquisition : a critical race analysis
… served to gather the perceptions of selected Black farm owners in Michigan about the meaning of their farm ownership, credit acquisition experiences, and recommendations to improve the process. Through a critical race methodology of 11 semi-structured interviews, key findings indicate the …
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Postemancipation Landscapes and Material Culture: The Bethel Community and the Benjamin W. Jackson Plantation
… of the landscape through the rise of black land ownership and material culture collected at two households occupied by generations of the Davis family. The Davises were tenant farmers whose ancestors were previously enslaved on the plantation and members of the family continued to …
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Owning Home: African-American Agriculture In Lower Richland County, South Carolina, 1868-1890
… decisions enabled some African-American farmers to own and keep their land for decades, contributing to the economic and social stability of their homes. Their stories of black agency and community, centered on agriculture, have been largely lost in the haze that surrounds historical …
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A critical content analysis of children's literature featuring Black agriculturalists
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Perpetual Mobilization and Environmental Injustice: Race and the Contested Development of Industrial Agriculture in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta.
… and that this injustice is confronted by black agricultural practice. A careful historical exploration of agro-industrial development avoids historical disjuncture by emphasizing the continuity between injustice in the past and injustice in the present. Food insecurity and environmental …