Growing Black food on sacred land

Using Black liberation theology to imagine an alternative Black agrarian future

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4475486
AutoresPriscilla Mccutcheon (Geography University of Kentucky, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen39
Número5
Páginas887-905
Fecha de publicación2021-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/02637758211032975
OpenAlexW3195217340
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas17
Referencias citadas30

This article uses Black liberation theology (BLIBT) as a framework to theorize "the spirit" in the alternative food and sustainable agriculture movement. While BLIBT was formally named by theologian James Cone, it was born of the struggles of Black people in the United States who believed that God called Black people to be free, and God called Black preachers to preach Black liberation. I argue that Black liberation is a grounded vantage point to understand how some Black people might find freedom through food and agriculture. In the first potion of the paper, I make a claim for the importance of studying spirituality in agrarian and food spaces, whether or not a researcher is spiritually inclined. In the second portion of the paper, I delve deeper into Cone's articulation of BLIBT, and explore how we might begin to theorize it as an agrarian mandate including: a call for an urgent food source, liberation of the individual Black body, community ownership of land, the spirit of Black religious spaces, an emphasis on land reparations, and the freedom to dream. I conclude with a call for why an attention to BLIBT is called for in our present moment

African american · Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · Black church · Black theology · Ethnology · Liberation movement · Liberation theology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Spirituality · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Law · Religion, Ecology, and Ethics · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability