Dr Monica M. White | The Black Farmers’ Historian

A Hungry Society | Episode 53: Dr. Monica White on “Freedom Farmers”

Today’s guest is Dr. Monica M. White, assistant professor of environmental justice, urban agriculture and community food systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement published this month. On the show we talk about the history of farming in Black liberation and her favorite restaurants in Madison, Wisconsin.
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NPR The Takeaway | July 29, 2022
“Black Freedom Farmers: Land as Sites of Resistance”

… Black land has been, and remains a site of Black resistance. To learn more about the ways Black people and communities use land, farming, and food justice as tools of resistance against racial inequality, we speak with Monica White, professor of environmental justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement.
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Heritage Radio Network

In Common

Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

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White, Monica M.  2011. “D-Town Farm:  African American Resistance to Food Insecurity and the Transformation of Detroit.”  Environmental Practice.  Vol. 13 (4).  White, Monica M.  2011. 

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“Sisters of the Soil:  Urban Gardening as Resistance in Detroit.”  Race/Ethnicity:  Multicultural Global Contexts. Race/Ethnicity:  Multicultural Global Contexts.  Vol. 5 (1). White, Monica, M.  2010.

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“Shouldering Responsibility for the Delivery of Human Rights:  A Case Study of the D-Town Farmers of Detroit,” Race/Ethnicity: Multicultural Global Contexts, Vol. 3 (2):  189-212. White, Monica, M.  2009.

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“Socio-Psychological Processes in Racial Identity Formation: A Case Study of the Autobiographies of African American and Latino/a Activists, Humanity and Society, Vol. 33(3):  185-205. White, Monica, M.  2005.

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“Familial Influence in the Autobiographies of Black South African and African American Women Activists.”  Michigan Family Review, Vol. 10 (1):  27-44. White, Monica, M.  2003.

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“Enter to Learn, Depart to Serve: The Application of the Kufundisha Pedagogical Model at A Historically Black College.”  Teaching Sociology, 31 (4):  383-396.

Additional Writings

Chapters in Edited Volumes: Race Struggles

White, Monica, M.  2009. “Socio-Psychological Processes in Racial Formation:  A Case Study of the Autobiographies of Former Black Panther Party Members,” in Race Struggles, edited by S. Cha-Jua, T. Koditschek, & H. Neville. University of Illinois Press.

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White, Monica, M.  2011. “Detroit, Race and Urban Gardening.”  When We Dream Together: Creating Communities of Opportunity.  Read

White, Monica, M.  2010. “D-Town: African American Farmers, Food Security and Detroit.”  Black Agenda Report. Read