Food for Thought: Mississippi's Black Farming Legacy

Mississippi's Black Farming Legacy — Ralph Eubanks, writer and essayist whose work focuses on race, identity, and the culture of the American South and Mississippi.

This event is part of the Food For Thought: Catfish Row Museum Lab and Pop-Up Exhibition. Through grant funding from the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area, the museum will present a series of hands-on workshops, curatorial events and programs centered around local foodways. Through public programs and workshops, the museum will develop content and collect artifacts for the Catfish Row Museum. In the museum’s lab space, visitors can scan, copy and donate documents, such as letters, recipes and historic photographs, as well as record oral history interviews. In the exhibition space, community members can observe and provide feedback on how their artifacts and stories will be used in exhibits.

This programming will present rich stories of crossing barriers and borders, of lives intertwined with food, as food and place are linked through the diversity of income and ethnicity in the South.

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About the speaker:

W. Ralph Eubanks is a writer and essayist whose work focuses on race, identity, and the culture and literature of the American South. He is the author of three books: A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through A Real and Imagined Literary Landscape; Ever Is a Long Time: A Journey into Mississippi’s Dark Past; and The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South. He is a visiting professor of English and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and is a 2021-2022 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University.