Quiz 2 (Week 5-7) Flashcards
Quiz 2
Case study of the African American experience in the Mississippi delta area
Smith Food Power Politics
To exert control and subjugation from food
Weaponization of food
Capacity of social actors/groups to shape and control their lives
Emancipatory food power
Lunsford draws comparison between what two racial groups?
- Native American
- African American
What are the three sister crops?
Beans, corn, squash
The key pillar of Native American diets
What was the forcible eviction of Native Americans from their lands to Oklahoma
The Indian Removal Act of 1830
What was the major event of the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
Trail of Tears
Forcible eviction of the Navajo from Arizona to New Mexico
The Long Walk of 1864
Provided federal land grants to western settlers, transferring 270 million acres of Native American lands to whites
1862 Homestead Acts
Laws in the South that allowed police to arrest black people for unemployment, loitering and then forcing them into labor
1865-1941 Convict leasing
Freed blacks did not have enough money to own land and would pay whites for fields, seeds, tools
Sharecropping
FHA created residential security maps that ranked neighborhoods from A to D based on racism pretty much
1977 Redlining
D neighborhoods were primarily
black
Grocery stores avoided what type of communities?
D; black
Sisters of the soil primarily talked about what?
Urban farming in Detroit