In this article, we examine the structure and meaning of community gardens in Florida's most cohesive and oldest African American community of Frenchtown in Tallahassee. Here, residents reclaim and transform empty spaces into places of engagement and empowerment, effectively resisting systemic racism. Using a mixed methods approach during a 5-week NSF-funded ethnographic field school with the Health Equity Alliance of Tallahassee, we counter the prevailing stigma of Frenchtown that perpetuates its continued marginalization. We argue that community gardens are expressions of social resistance. Through garden activities, residents transcend race, culture, income, and neighborhoods, while also promoting health, heritage, place-making, and economic opportunities. Place is constituted by spatial politics in a cultural milieu, evident in the community's ability to intersect diverse institutional boundaries via gardens. This research contextualizes how a community-based participatory research project successfully resists violent environments through spatial transformation.

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通过社区花园相交的种族，空间和地方

在本文中，我们研究了佛罗里达州塔拉哈西市Frenchtown最具凝聚力和最古老的非裔美国人社区的社区花园的结构和含义。在这里，居民可以将空地回收并转化为参与和授权的场所，从而有效地抵抗了系统的种族主义。在塔拉哈西健康公平联盟与美国国家科学基金会资助的人种学田野学校进行为期5周的混合研究中，我们采用了混合方法的方法，来应对法国镇的普遍污名化，使该镇继续处于边缘地位。我们认为社区花园是社会抵抗的体现。通过花园活动，居民超越了种族，文化，收入和社区，同时还促进了健康，遗产，场所营造和经济机会。地方是由文化环境中的空间政治构成的，社区通过花园与各种制度边界相交的能力就显而易见。这项研究结合了基于社区的参与性研究项目如何通过空间转换成功抵御暴力环境的背景。