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Author: Natalie Baszile ,
Tina Lifford
Publisher: HarperCollins
Imprint: HarperCollins
Edition: Unabridged edition
Dimensions:
Width: 14.70cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 2.80cm
Weight: 0.227kg
ISBN: 9781799950431
ISBN 10: 1799950433
Publication Date: 06 April 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""Baszile elevates the voices of Black farmers and ongoing conversations surrounding food justice, land stewardship, and intergenerational wealth."" -- ""Library Journal (starred review)"" ""This insightful, eye-opening collection helps to reimagine what it means to be dedicated to the land."" -- ""Alice Waters, California cuisine pioneer and New York Times bestselling author"" ""Weaves together powerful stories about farmers of color that focus on their survival, pride, and cultivation."" -- ""Washington Post"" [An] amazing collection of voices that reveal Black people's devotion to agriculture. Expressing our contributions to the world from ground up, it is a tribute to our ancestors and a gift for us and the future."" -- ""Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times bestselling author"" ""This inspirational survey is a fitting tribute to Black farmers throughout history."" -- ""Publishers Weekly"""
Essays, poems, first-person stories, and commentary from historians and James Beard Award winners alike to assay the history, struggles, and current resurgence of African American farmers. -- Library Journal This inspirational survey is a fitting tribute to Black farmers throughout history. -- Publishers Weekly
This inspirational survey is a fitting tribute to Black farmers throughout history. -- Publishers Weekly Essays, poems, first-person stories, and commentary from historians and James Beard Award winners alike to assay the history, struggles, and current resurgence of African American farmers. -- Library Journal
Author Information
Natalie Baszile is the author of the novel Queen Sugar, which was a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2014, longlisted for the Crooks Corner Southern Book Prize, nominated for an NAACP Image Award, and adapted for television by writer/director Ava DuVernay and co-produced by Oprah Winfrey for OWN. Baszile holds a M.A. in Afro-American Studies from UCLA and is a graduate of Warren Wilson College's MFA Program for Writers. She lives in San Francisco. Tina Lifford began her acting career in 1983. Since then, the veteran Hollywood actress's multi-faceted career has left an imprint on audiences worldwide. She currently plays Aunt Vi on Queen Sugar, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network's hit television show. She is also recognized playwright and CEO of The Inner Fitness Project, a personal development network that teaches individuals to focus more on thriving than on surviving. She desires to inspire people from all walks of life to invest in their emotional wellbeing and act on their dreams so that they can feel less stressed and respond to life with more personal power, insight, and wisdom.
