Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South documents how Black
employees of the cooperative extension service of the USDA
practiced rural improvement in ways that sustained southern Black
farmers' lives and livelihoods in the early decades of the
twentieth century, resisting the white supremacy that characterized
the Jim Crow South. Mona Domosh details the various mechanisms-the
transformation of home demonstration projects, the development of a
movable school, and the establishment of Black landowning
communities-through which these employees were able to alter USDA's
mandates and redirect its funds. These tweakings and translations
of USDA directives enabled these employees to support poor Black
farmers by promoting food production, health care, and land and
home ownership, thus disturbing a system of plantation agriculture
that relied on the devaluing of Black lives. Through the
documentation of these efforts, Domosh uncovers an important and
previously unknown episode in the long history of international
development that highlights the roots of liberal development
schemes in the anti-Black racism that constituted plantation
agriculture and illustrates how racist systems can be quietly and
subtly resisted by everyday people working within the confines of
white supremacy.
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