Women Farmers Are Reshaping the Field in South Carolina
Through fieldwork interviews, Sarah Melotte learns how women in agriculture carve out room for themselves in an industry dominated by men.
Tagged: US South
On Being the (Only) Black Feminist Environmental Ethnographer in Gulf Coast Louisiana
Ethnographer Frances Roberts-Gregory describes the importance of embracing ‘Black girl reliable’ and supporting frontline communities.
Tobacco’s World of Racial Capitalism: A Conversation with Nan Enstad
A historian planned a small study of cigarette culture. But she ended up uncovering a transnational network of seeds, plants, knowledge, and racist ideologies, and writing a book that transforms how we conceive of corporations and empire.
In Search of a Democratic Agrarian Tradition: A Conversation with Pete Daniel and Jess Gilbert
What is the relationship between American agriculture and democracy? In this lively interview, Jess Gilbert and Pete Daniel get to the root of their disagreement over the role of the state and debate what effects the writing of agricultural history has on policy making.
