How Black employees of the USDA redirected some of its funds to support poor Black farmers
MONA DOMOSH is professor of geography at Dartmouth College. Her previous publications include Contemporary Human Geography: Culture, Globalization, Landscape (co-authored with Roderick Neumann and Patricia Price), American Commodities in an Age of Empire, and Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in 19th Century New York and Boston. She lives in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
This story is an important story to tell, and Mona Domosh does it
with nuance and an important eye towards not only the raced but
gendered realities of this landscape. With it, she highlights an
understudied period in American history.
*Joshua Inwood, director, Penn State Lab for Analysis of Culture
and Environment (PLACE)*
Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South offers an extremely
important story about race, international development, and forms of
resistance to white supremacist logics and institutions within the
regime of Jim Crow domestically and imperial expansion globally
that is not well known. The empirical details make for a
comprehensive analysis that is both engaging and revealing.
*Anne Bonds, associate professor of geography, University of
Wisconsin*
Written with care and deep respect, this book seeks to undo the
erasure of Black women from farming histories in America by
bringing into focus their instrumental role in Black agricultural
resistance movements. This is a book for everyone interested in the
hidden spaces and rarely recognized geographies of Black women’s
struggles.
*Beverley Mullings, geography professor, University of Toronto*
Mona Domosh argues that within the constraints of an economic
system designed to maximize the exploitation of Black labor and
block upward mobility, African American extension agents offered
concrete assistance to rural poor families that improved their
standard of living, while leaving the basic structures of racial
capitalism intact... Domosh’s analysis is thoughtful and nuanced,
paying close attention to the limits of these activities along with
their achievements
*Journal of Southern History*
An exceptional example of archival research integrated with theory.
. . . Domosh works to gradually expand the reader’s understanding
of the larger structural forces shaping Black extension while also
refusing to deviate from a focus on the Black agents’ agency in
shaping extension at the same time. Domosh should be credited for
her explicit discussion of her positionality as a white researcher
studying with and writing about Black people and communities, as
well as her acknowledgement of the limitations of such
acknowledgments while offering a commitment towards deeper
engagement.
*Register of the Kentucky Historical Society*
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