#144: Cuzzin' Talk: Food Justice, A Social Movement

Edible Activist Podcast

Xavier's Top Recommended Reads for Black Food Organizers and Advocates:

1. Black Rice by Judith A. Carney
   
2. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
   
3. In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World by Judith A. Carney & Richard Nicholas Rosomoff
   
4. Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malinda Patrice Some
   
5. Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and the Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malinda Patrice Some
   
6. Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby
   
7. Land Justice: Re-imaging Land, Food, and the Commons in the United States
   
8. Land & Power: Sustainable Agriculture and African Americans, by Various Authors & Editors
   
9. Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
   
10. Freedom Farmers: Agriculture Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement by Dr. Monica M. White
    
11. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
    
12. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
    
13. As in the Heart, So in the Earth : Reversing the Desertification of the Soul and the Soil by Pierre Rabhi