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We Are Each Other's Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy

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From the author of Queen Sugar?now a critically acclaimed series on OWN directed by Ava Duvernay?comes a beautiful exploration and celebration of black farming in America.?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.?These farmers are joined by other influential voices, including noted historians Analena