Dr. Monica White is the author of Freedom Farmers, Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement and an associate professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She will be delivering a virtual keynote address (via Zoom) at 4:00 pm on Monday, April 19th. This presentation will expand the historical narrative of the Black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of southern Black farmers and the organizations, and cooperatives, they formed. Whereas existing scholarship generally views agriculture as a site of oppression and exploitation of Black people, Freedom Farmers reveals agriculture as a site of resistance and provides a historical foundation that adds meaning and context to current conversations around the resurgence of food justice/sovereignty movements in urban spaces like Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York City, and New Orleans. Read more about this event and Dr. White here.
There will also be a somewhat smaller community discussion with Dr. White following the address, at 6:00pm. People of color are especially encouraged to attend.
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