"We Can't Grow Food on All This Concrete": The Land Question, Agrarianism, and Black Nationalist Thought in the Late 1960s and 1970s.

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Title: "We Can't Grow Food on All This Concrete": The Land Question, Agrarianism, and Black Nationalist Thought in the Late 1960s and 1970s.
Authors: Rickford, Russell1
Source: Journal of American History. Mar2017, Vol. 103 Issue 4, p956-980. 25p.
Subject Terms: *History, African American nationalism, Land tenure, African American philosophy, Agrarian societies, Rural Americans, African Americans, Twentieth century
Geographic Terms: United States, Southern States
Abstract: The article discusses U.S. black nationalist philosophy during the late 1960s and 1970s, including in regard to the question of land tenure. The African American black power movement's concept of the rural agrarian society ideal in the U.S. Southern States, including the aspects of nostalgia in the agrarian ideal, is discussed.
Database: Education Research Complete
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