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Free Download Food Power Politics: The Food Story of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement by Bobby J. Smith II
English | August 29, 2023 | ISBN: 1469675064, 1469675072, 9781469675084 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 5.9 MB
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 resistance. Today, Black youth are building a food justice movement in the Delta to continue this story, grappling with inequalities that continue to shape their lives.