We are each other's harvest : celebrating African American farmers, land, and legacy / Natalie Baszile.
"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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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.