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â[T]here is more to the story of the modern black farmerâ than existing research suggests, argues Leslie Touzeau in her 2019 study. This chapter¹ contends that Leah Pennimanâs Farming While Black (2018) and Black Earth Wisdom (2023), along with Natalie Baszileâs novel Queen Sugar (2014) represent ideal material for studying the modern Black farmer. The texts function as empowering, healing recordings and also uplifting fictional imaginings of generations of Black farmers and farming communities as well as of the ethos of Black agrarianism. Specifically, these texts theorize, articulate, and bear witness to how Black farmers of different generations and genders have (re)built their relationship to and found consolation in the land through stewardship. Additionally, by providing what Leah Penniman calls âdignified narratives of our relationship to the landâ (Bittner), and by addressing African Americansâ historical trauma of being enslaved, dispossessed, and disenfranchised, as well as by rewriting harmful stereotypes about working the land, the texts also perform environmental justice. The texts by Penniman and Baszile harness the reparative and healing qualities of literature and land as they address âblack peopleâs complex relationship to the landâ (White 142) and interpret black farming and land stewardship as morally and economically uplifting, as resistance to and healing for the wounds of white supremacy and environmental racism.

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