Department or Program
Environmental Studies
Abstract
Our current food system disproportionately compromises the health of Black bodies and environments. Therefore, it is necessary for alternative food movements to recognize and organize against anti-Black racism. By empowering and uplifting Black women, specifically through recognizing everyday practices of care, resistance to systems of violence, whether that be neoliberal industrial agriculture or white supremacy, is better realized. The two gardens explored in this paper offer a glimpse of ordinary and familiar work affecting change on a community level. I will argue the practices of care born out of womanism, other-mothering, and homeplace are subversive tools for combatting inequitable food systems and creating resilient communities.
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First Advisor
Sonja Pieck
Date of Graduation
5-2017
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Recommended Citation
Klein, Dani, ""Our Mothers' Gardens": Womanism, Other-mothering, and Homeplace in Oakland's Community Gardens" (2017). Standard Theses. 136.
https://scarab.bates.edu/envr_studies_theses/136
Number of Pages
69
Components of Thesis
1 word file
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