Dorothea Lange, Filipinos Cutting Lettuce, Salinas, California, 1935
As part of her assignment from the Farm Security Administration, a Depression-era agency, Lange documented the injustice of stoop labor forced upon Filipinx migrant workers in the lettuce fields of the central California coast. [source]
I haven’t been able to stop thinking about Depression-era images by Lange and Walker Evans since reading Dr. Sarah Lewis’s Op-Ed for The New York Times. In the piece she asks, “What are we missing by not having images that represent the full impact of the coronavirus crisis?”
I specifically chose this Lange image, because I’ve been following Democracy Now’s coverage of COVID-19’s impact on farmworkers in the United States.
On a lighter note, I also wanted to share this incredible Food & Land Sovereignty Resource List created by Soul Fire Farm, Black Farmer Fund, and Northeast Farmers of Color.
In solidarity xx