Photo credit: LC-USF33-T01-001258-M1. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Collection. Photo by John Vachon.
Contents
Introduction by Dr. Analena Hope Hassberg
1. Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden
2. Everyone Beneath Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: A Remembering in Seven Parts by Michael Twitty
3. Handed the Rain by Ed Roberson
4. Writing Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
5. Excerpt from Black and White: The Way I See It by Richard Williams
6. Resilience and Reinvention with Stanley Hughes and Linda Leach
7. Little Farm, Big Dreams with Kamal Bell
8. Black to the Land by Leah Penniman
9. cutting greens by Lucille Clifton
10. The Last Plantation: The USDA’s Racist Operating System by Pete Daniel
11. Father and Daughter with Harper and Ashley Armstrong
12. To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian by Ross Gay
13. On Top of Moon Mountain with Brenae Royal
14. Money Talk with Clif Sutton and Dexter Faison
15. Barking by Lenard D. Moore
17. Louisiana Daughters: A Conversation with Lalita Tademy and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
18. Queen Sugar, Chapter 10 by Natalie Baszile
19. Frame by Robin Coste Lewis
20. America at the Crossroads: A History of Enslavement and Land by Clyde Ford
21. Field Day at the Hill Place with Odis Hill
22. Equal Ground with Willie Earl Nelson Sr. and Sons
24. Four Days in Alaskan Farm School with Melony Edwards
25. No Better Life with the Blueforts
26. Ancestral Vibrations Guide Our Connection to the Land by Jim Embry
28. Family Ties with Esmeralda and Antonio Sandoval
29. How to Make Rain by Kevin Young
30. Miss Rose’s Dirty Rice by Natalie Baszile
31. A New Country with Dorcas Young
32. Raised and Rooted with Deric Harper
33. Making Space with Moretta Browne
34. Call Me by My Name by Harryette Mullen
35. Wheel of Fortune with Martha Calderon
36. Exceeding the “Yes” with Marvin Frink
38. A Brief History of Tobacco by Natalie Baszile
39. After Tobacco with the Wrights
40. Yellowjackets by Yusef Komunyakaa
41. Home Games with Kellye Walker and Werten Bellamy
42. Butter by Elizabeth Alexander
43. A Love Letter to Future Generations by Naima Penniman