“An exceptional book of paramount importance. Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, Jessie K. Luna draws on insightful and engaging ethnography to offer a brilliant analysis and rigorous critique of agricultural modernization in cotton production using the lens of racial capitalism. A desperately needed original empirical contribution to build and refine existing theory and to shift the terms of the problematic itself.”—Jordanna Matlon, author of A Man Among Other Men
“An outstanding piece of scholarship: a future classic for those who study agrarian change. Jessie K. Luna has achieved the rare feat of producing an accessible and engaging text that is also theoretically rich, yet deeply grounded in the ecologies, rural sensibilities and linguistic nuances of Burkina Faso. A rural sociology tour de force!” —William Moseley, author of Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation
