Intersecting race, space, and place through community gardens

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2289705
AutoresEmily Benton Hite (0000-0002-5326-6123, University of Colorado Boulder, autor de correspondencia), Dorie Pérez (University of California System), Dalila D''Ingeo, Dalila D'Ingeo, Dalila D’Ingeo (University of Florida), Qasimah Boston (Children's Mental Health System of Care Expansion), Miaisha M Mitchell (0000-0001-6984-5085), Miaisha Mitchell (Tallahassee Food Network)
Año2017
Volumen41
Número2
Páginas55-66
Fecha de publicación2017-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnnals of Anthropological Practice (BOOK_SERIES)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2153-957X • E-ISSN: 2153-9588
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/napa.12113
OpenAlexW2768442521
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas35

In this article, we examine the structure and meaning of community gardens in Florida's most cohesive and oldest African American community of Frenchtown in Tallahassee. Here, residents reclaim and transform empty spaces into places of engagement and empowerment, effectively resisting systemic racism. Using a mixed methods approach during a 5-week NSF-funded ethnographic field school with the Health Equity Alliance of Tallahassee, we counter the prevailing stigma of Frenchtown that perpetuates its continued marginalization. We argue that community gardens are expressions of social resistance. Through garden activities, residents transcend race, culture, income, and neighborhoods, while also promoting health, heritage, place-making, and economic opportunities. Place is constituted by spatial politics in a cultural milieu, evident in the community's ability to intersect diverse institutional boundaries via gardens. This research contextualizes how a community-based participatory research project successfully resists violent environments through spatial transformation

Citizen journalism · Empowerment · Ethnography · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racism · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Organic Food and Agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban Green Space and Health · Ecology