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We are each other's harvest : celebrating African American farmers, land, and legacy
"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 th...
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New York, NY :
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword /
- by Natalie Baszile
- Introduction /
- by Dr. Analena Hope Hassberg
- Those winter Sundays /
- by Robert Hayden
- Everyone beneath their own vine and fig tree : a remembering in seven parts /
- by Michael Twitty
- Handed the rain /
- by Ed Roberson
- Writing Queen Sugar /
- by Natalie Baszile
- Excerpt from Black and White: the way I see it /
- by Richard Williams
- Resilience and reinvention /
- with Stanley Hughes and Linda Leach
- Little farm, big dreams /
- with Kamal Bell
- Black to the land /
- by Leah Penniman
- Cutting greens /
- by Lucille Clifton
- The last plantation : the USDA's racist operating system /
- by Pete Daniel
- Father and daughter /
- with Harper and Ashley Armstrong
- To the fig tree on 9th and Christian /
- by Ross Gay
- On top of Moon Mountain /
- with Brenae Royal
- Money talk /
- with Clif Sutton and Dexter Faison
- Barking /
- by Lenard D. Moore
- Dispossessed : their family bought land one generation after slavery. The Reels brothers spent eight years in jail for refusing to leave it /
- by Lizzie Presser
- Louisiana daughters : a conversation with Lalita Tademy and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
- Queen Sugar, Chapter 10 /
- by Natalie Baszile
- Frame /
- by Robin Coste Lewis
- America at the crossroads : a history of enslavement and land /
- by Clyde Ford
- Field Day at the Hill Place /
- with Odis Hill
- Equal ground /
- with Willie Earl Nelson Sr. and sons
- Fearless /
- by Tim Seibles
- Four days in Alaskan Farm School /
- with Melony Edwards
- No better life /
- with the Blueforts
- Ancestral vibrations guide our connection to the land /
- by Jim Embry
- Remember /
- by Joy Harjo
- Family ties /
- with Esmeralda and Antonio Sandoval
- How to make rain /
- by Kevin Young
- Miss Rose's dirty rice /
- by Natalie Baszile
- A new country /
- with Dorcas Young
- Raised and rooted /
- with Deric Harper
- Making space /
- with Moretta Browne
- Call me by my name /
- by Harryette Mullen
- Wheel of fortune /
- with Martha Calderon
- Exceeding the "yes" /
- with Marvin Frink
- Swarm /
- by Tonya Foster
- A brief history of tobacco /
- by Natalie Baszile
- After tobacco /
- with the Wrights
- Yellowjackets /
- by Yusef Komunyakaa
- Home games /
- with Kellye Walker and Werten Bellamy
- Butter /
- by Elizabeth Alexander
- A love letter to future generations /
- by Naima Penniman
- Inside Queen Sugar: Jason Wilborn reflects on his years in the Queen Sugar Writers' Room /
- by Natalie Baszile
- The Boudin Trail /
- by Natalie Baszile
- Black Harvest Fund.