This paper examines Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farms, a 1969 farming cooperative in Sunflower County, Mississippi. Specifically, this paper interrogates how Hamer's identity as a Black southern woman influences her formulation and daily activities at Freedom Farms. Theoretically, this paper situates Hamer as an expert agrarian labourer and knowledge producer who exists within a history of Black women who have always been utilised for their agrarian knowledge, but given little credit. Hamer's knowledge is a part of her body. This paper argues that Freedom Farms is a Black radical geography operating at three scales: the body, the farm and the southern agrarian landscape. This paper utilises Hamer's speeches, interviews and other archival documents to understand Hamer's efforts. Hamer's agrarian landscape is wrought with pain, but also the insistence in the economic opportunity that exists for Black people in agrarian spaces.
Black churches have received little attention in geographic scholarship. This article employs archival and textual research, extensive participant observation, and semistructured open-ended interviews with volunteers to examine the day-to-day actions and overall goals of a historically prominent black Protestant church in Atlanta, GA, USA. Specifically, the volunteer-run emergency food program is understood as a black geography riddled with contradictions that reveal the complexity of black people more broadly. 'Emergency soul food' is an imperfect yet complicated short-term solution for those coming in to be served. Outside of the food program, volunteers' hopes and dreams for Auburn Avenue are based on a romantic remembrance of the neighborhood. Ultimately, their prescriptions for the future are a mixture of black socially conservative values and visions to create an alternative black geography with affordable housing for all.
Alimentation, foi et lutte quotidienne pour une communauté urbaine noireLes églises noires ont rec u très peu d'attention dans la recherche géographique. Cet article utilise la recherche d'archives et de documents, l'observation considérable des participants et des entretiens en format ouvert et semi-structuré avec des volontaires pour examiner les actions quotidiennes et les objectifs dans leur ensemble d'une église protestante noire historiquement prépondérante à Atlanta, dans l'état de Géorgie aux Etats-Unis. En particulier, le programme alimentaire d'urgence organisé par des volontaires est considéré comme une géographie noire pleine de contradictions qui révèle les contradictions des Noirs plus généralement. « Emergency soul food » est une solution imparfaite et pourtant compliquée à court-terme pour ceux qui viennent s'y servir. En dehors du programme d'alimentation, les espoirs et les rêves des volontaires pour Auburn Avenue reposent sur un souvenir romantique du voisinage. En fin de compte, leurs recommandations pour l'avenir sont un mélange de valeurs et de visions des Noirs socialement conservatrices afin de créer une géographie noire alternative avec un logement abordable pour tous.Mots-clés: geografías afroamericanas; iglesia afroamericana; alimentos de emergencia; comida para el alma; identidad racial La comida, la fe y la lucha diaria para la comunidad afroamericana urbana las iglesias dentro de la comunidad afroamericana han recibido poca atención en los estudios geográficos. A través de una investigación archivística y textual, de una extensa observación a participantes y de entrevistas abiertas y semi-estructuradas con voluntarios, este trabajo examina las acciones cotidianas y los objetivos generales de una prominente iglesia protestante afroamericana en Atlanta, Georgia, EE.UU. En concreto, el programa de alimentación de emergencia voluntario se entiende como una geografía afroamericana plagada de contradicciones que revela las contradicciones de la gente afroamericana más ampliamente. "La comida de emergencia para el alma" es una solución imperfecta y complicada a cort...
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