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A Pea for the Past, A Pea for the Future
FromGravy
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Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Mar 3, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The black-eyed pea is not your average bean. Like many staple foods of the African Diaspora, it’s become a powerful symbol of food sovereignty and survival. With the migration of the black-eyed pea from West Africa during the transatlantic slave trade came a superstition about good luck. This belief combines folklore from West Africa and Western Europe in the American South. Our episode follows the journey of the black-eyed pea, time-traveling through the folklore of the past and an Afrofuturist vision of what’s still to come.
Released:
Mar 3, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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