TY  - GEN
AU  - Minkoff-Zern,Laura-Anne
TI  - The New American Farmer : Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability
SN  - mitpress/11263.001.0001
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Environmental policy & protocols
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Social discrimination & inequality
KW  - food justice
KW  - race and food
KW  - sustainable farming
KW  - sustainable agriculture
KW  - sustainable food
KW  - alternative agriculture
KW  - alternative food
KW  - immigrant agriculture
KW  - food sovereignty
KW  - farmworkers
KW  - farmworker justice
KW  - immigration and food
KW  - slow food
KW  - eco-food
KW  - just food
KW  - food culture
KW  - immigrant rights
KW  - Mexican immigration
KW  - Latino
KW  - latinx
KW  - Latinoa agriculture
KW  - Latinoa farmers
KW  - Latinx agriculture
KW  - Mexican foodways
KW  - Mexican agriculture
KW  - new farmers
KW  - beginning farmers
KW  - organic farming
KW  - organic farmers
KW  - agrifood systems
KW  - food and society
KW  - agricultural ladder
KW  - agroecology
KW  - agricultural institutions
KW  - farmers markets
KW  - USDA
KW  - agricultural extension
KW  - agricultural technical support
KW  - Agricultural Census
KW  - family labor
KW  - farm labor
KW  - food labor
KW  - agricultural labor
KW  - land reform
KW  - small-scale farming
KW  - diverse farming
KW  - farm scale
KW  - family farming
KW  - food security
KW  - foodways
KW  - farmers of color
KW  - racism
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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. 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 The New American Farmer, 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. 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. 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/11263.001.0001
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78572
ER  -