New American Farmer - Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability

"The New American Farmer explores the role of Latino/a immigrant farmers in the United States as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners. Analyzing the dynamics of racial oppression and farmworker agency, this book looks at the geographic, political, and economic barriers immigrant farmworkers must overcome to change their social and economic positioning, as well as their impressive, yet under-acknowledged role in sustainable food systems. These stories of combined struggle and perseverance are not commonly told within the vast literature on food and racial injustice. Although we are h…