Those of us within the Black agrarian dynamic are at an intergenerational crossroads, for we face both the rapid loss of traditional and ancestral knowledge of aging farmers, landowners, and rural peoples—exacerbated by the dispossession and loss of black-owned land—and the massive disconnection between the generations organizing within the Black agrarian community. For Black folk and people of color, this twofold disjuncture is compounded by institutionalized racism, exploitation, violence, and generational trauma from working the land.
what to do?
