Apr 22, 2021
Those first two episodes in this
mini-series about farm work and the agrarian myth asked us to move
beyond our images of red barns and silos to understand with more
nuance the challenging realities of contemporary farm work, even
for Wisconsinites who grew up on family farms. These next two
episodes explore what it means to farm while black or brown, or
more precisely what it means to do farm work while black and
brown. Because the stories of Black and Latinx 1500 Stories
respondents who grew up doing farm work aren’t stories about family
farms. They are stories about laboring in the fields for
commercial agriculture.