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Decolonizing a Food System: Freedom Farmers' Market as a Place for Resistance and Analysis

Author(s) -

Gail Myers

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of agriculture food systems and community development

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2152-0798

pISSN - 2152-0801

DOI - 10.5304/jafscd.2015.054.025

Subject(s) - resistance (ecology) , food systems , mainstream , food studies , food sovereignty , food market , food security , sociology , business , agriculture , political science , law , agronomy , ecology , biology , anthropology

Oakland's Freedom Farmers' Market is more than a venue for food exchange; it is a gathering place for Black cultural expression and economics. More often than not, Black farmers are shut out and even pushed out of mainstream farmers markets. However, fresh food and Black farmers are celebrated at the Freedom Farmers' Market each week. This commentary discusses the critical ways in which this market represents a social discourse about decolonizing our food system. Embedded within this place analysis is also, necessarily, a critique of the dominant places people currently have available for food. The Freedom Farmers' Market has become a model for disenfranchised peoples to take control of their own food system.

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