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Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–1982
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9700-4096
Abstract Agricultural extension in the United States is a massive, federally-sponsored apparatus that shapes rural life as it aims to improve both farming practices and rural people. While the majority of existing research focuses on programs aimed at farm production, extension also includes home economics programs specifically designed for rural women. Drawing on archival research on home extension in Minnesota during the aftermath of landmark Civil Rights legislation, this article traces how state and county agents racialized rural places via the construction of the ideal white, heterosexual, middle-class feminine subject. Analyzing reports, program notes, and program material shows that these practices were grounded in overt segregation as well as more banal but pernicious white benevolence that equated whiteness with education, industriousness, and curiosity.
Highlights Home economics extension was a key apparatus through which the USDA attempted to craft rural subjectivities and places. Home extension constructing white rural places by equating whiteness with education, industriousness, and curiosity. Home extension was steeped in both racialized exclusions and white benevolence that treated outreach as service.
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–1982
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9700-4096
Abstract Agricultural extension in the United States is a massive, federally-sponsored apparatus that shapes rural life as it aims to improve both farming practices and rural people. While the majority of existing research focuses on programs aimed at farm production, extension also includes home economics programs specifically designed for rural women. Drawing on archival research on home extension in Minnesota during the aftermath of landmark Civil Rights legislation, this article traces how state and county agents racialized rural places via the construction of the ideal white, heterosexual, middle-class feminine subject. Analyzing reports, program notes, and program material shows that these practices were grounded in overt segregation as well as more banal but pernicious white benevolence that equated whiteness with education, industriousness, and curiosity.
Highlights Home economics extension was a key apparatus through which the USDA attempted to craft rural subjectivities and places. Home extension constructing white rural places by equating whiteness with education, industriousness, and curiosity. Home extension was steeped in both racialized exclusions and white benevolence that treated outreach as service.
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–1982
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9700-4096
Abstract Agricultural extension in the United States is a massive, federally-sponsored apparatus that shapes rural life as it aims to improve both farming practices and rural people. While the majority of existing research focuses on programs aimed at farm production, extension also includes home economics programs specifically designed for rural women. Drawing on archival research on home extension in Minnesota during the aftermath of landmark Civil Rights legislation, this article traces how state and county agents racialized rural places via the construction of the ideal white, heterosexual, middle-class feminine subject. Analyzing reports, program notes, and program material shows that these practices were grounded in overt segregation as well as more banal but pernicious white benevolence that equated whiteness with education, industriousness, and curiosity.
Highlights Home economics extension was a key apparatus through which the USDA attempted to craft rural subjectivities and places. Home extension constructing white rural places by equating whiteness with education, industriousness, and curiosity. Home extension was steeped in both racialized exclusions and white benevolence that treated outreach as service.
Racializing rural places through USDA home economics agricultural extension, 1965–1982
Smith, Jessica M. (Autor:in)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 106
09.02.2024
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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