The New American Farmer - (Food, Health, and the Environment) by Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The New American Farmer explores the role of Latino/a immigrant farmers in the United States as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners. Analyzing the dynamics of racial oppression and farmworker agency, this book looks at the geographic, political, and economic barriers immigrant farmworkers must overcome to change their social and economic positioning, as well as their impressive, yet under-acknowledged role in sustainable food systems. These stories of combined struggle and perseverance are not commonly told within the vast literature on food and racial injustice. Although we are hearing more from scholars and journalists about food system inequities in fields and factories and inadequate access to fresh and healthy foods, how people are using culture to resist related discriminatory policies and programs is not frequently discussed. This manuscript will contribute a new perspective on racial inequity and justice in the food movement--one where sustainable practices are part of reclaiming and resisting oppressive narratives and histories. Globally, the movement for food sovereignty is growing and international organizations, agencies, and scholars are looking for more successful examples of sustainable farming being done by communities of color, immigrants, and formally dispossessed peasants"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>An examination of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners that offers a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming.</b><p>Although the majority of farms in the United States have US-born owners who identify as white, a growing number of new farmers are immigrants, many of them from Mexico, who originally came to the United States looking for work in agriculture. In <i>The New American Farmer</i>, Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern explores the experiences of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners, offering a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. She finds that many of these new farmers rely on farming practices from their home countries--including growing multiple crops simultaneously, using integrated pest management, maintaining small-scale production, and employing family labor--most of which are considered alternative farming techniques in the United States.</p><p>Drawing on extensive interviews with farmers and organizers, Minkoff-Zern describes the social, economic, and political barriers immigrant farmers must overcome, from navigating USDA bureaucracy to racialized exclusion from opportunities. She discusses, among other topics, the history of discrimination against farm laborers in the United States; the invisibility of Latino/a farmers to government and universities; new farmers' sense of agrarian and racial identity; and the future of the agrarian class system.</p><p>Minkoff-Zern argues that immigrant farmers, with their knowledge and experience of alternative farming practices, are--despite a range of challenges--actively and substantially contributing to the movement for an ecological and sustainable food system. Scholars and food activists should take notice.<br></p>
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