n 2007, more than 100 people gathered at Tuskegee University in Alabama to move innovation in black sustainable agriculture forward and contribute to the overall diversity of thought in sustainable agriculture.
Land and Power: Sustainable Agriculture and African Americans, edited by Jeffrey Jordan, a UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences professor, Edward Pennick, Walter A. Hill and Robert Zabawa, is a collection of papers from the presentations, posters and discussions presented at the 2007 Black Environmental Thought Conference.
The essays present a moment in the early 21st century, preserving what some leaders in various segments of black American culture were thinking about land and power as it related to sustainable agriculture and black American traditions.
The papers in this volume are like eclectic, diversified family farms. Some writers touched on more than one subject, and some subjects attracted writers from diverse viewpoi