Open AccessConcerning the Unbearable Whiteness of Urban Farming
Author(s) -
Antonio Roman-Alcalá
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.2015.054.031
Subject(s) - privilege (computing) , transformative learning , urban agriculture , white privilege , white (mutation) , agriculture , economic justice , white supremacy , sociology , environmental ethics , white paper , political science , aesthetics , criminology , law , gender studies , history , racism , art , archaeology , pedagogy , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Based on the author's experience in urban agriculture projects and organizations in the United States, this commentary offers some basic, initial, and practical suggestions for how activists who are white or otherwise of relative privilege can approach "food justice" activism in ways that avoid re-inscribing white supremacy, and can more likely achieve the potential of transformative and multi-racial urban agriculture movements.
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