Black Environmental Thought Conference (2007 : Tuskegee University)
Title:
Land and power : sustainable agriculture and African Americans : a collection of essays from the 2007 Black Environmental Thought Conference / edited by Jeffrey L. Jordan [and others].
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher:
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program,
"Published ... with funding from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Sustainable agriculture and African Americans: land and power / Jeffrey L. Jordan [and others] -- George Washington Carver: a blazer of trails to a sustainable future / John S. Ferrell -- York, Harriet, and George: writing African American ecological ancestors / Kimberly N. Ruffin -- The transformation of George Washington Carver's environmental vision, 1896-1918 / Mark D. Hersey -- The deep roots of our land-based heritage: environmental, social, and cultural implications / Owusu Bandele -- Theoretical perspectives on the cultural foundations of sustainable agriculture and African American farmers: toward a black agroecology / Kwasi Densu -- The physical and social environment of African American agricultural communities of the New Deal Resettlement Administration / Tasha M. Hargrove and Robert Zabawa -- Mrs. Block Beautiful: African American women and the birth of the urban conservation movement, Chicago, IL, 1917-1954 / Sylvia Hood Washington -- Preserving African-American rural property: an assessment of intergenerational values toward land / Edward Jerry Pennick, Heather Gray, and Miessha N. Thomas -- The Holy Land is all the earth / Louis Alemayehu -- Power in the blood / Louis Alemayehu -- PachaMaMa got the blues / Louis Alemayehu -- African American environmentalism: issues and trends for teaching, research, and extension / Clyde E. Chesney -- Environmental thought and activism: an 1890 land-grant university perspective / Walter A. Hill.
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