Whiteness and Farmers Markets

 The reading Whiteness and Famers market it closely ties the last weeks discussion of immigrant farmers. Just because non white people make up the majority of large farmers and do the majority of labor that does not mean that they are the ones being recognized or seen. That’s talked about in this reading, farmers markets are made up of and organized by white people. Just because everyone works on farmland doesn’t mean everyone is treated with the same respect and opportunities. Which can be found throughout many quotes in the article but one stuck out to me, « these pleasure are at least in part tied to our light skins and middle class upbringings ». Showing how we say our country it developing and moving on racism still play a large factor from small towns to full on systemic racism. I also find the discussion of calling common slogans around farmers markets a white farming imaginary. Meaning that the hard labor put into farming if often forgotten and rather romanticizes the process of farming. While yes it is good for the community to keep money in that area there are many more reasons to support local farmers. The struggle that farmers of color is covered up. For example forgetting that many farming practices and farming lands once belonged to those who were native to land and were forced out or killed or that many of those farmers of color are extremely underpaid. These are things that markets don’t show rather they fill the idea of happy white American farmers. I still find it confusing how farmed markets are supported by non family workers yet you don’t see these people and these are the people who are underpaid and need the money. Why is it constructed in such a way that those who need the help the most are those last to receive it?