Andrea Freeman: Skimmed | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781503628960 | Skimmed | Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice | Andrea Freeman | Buch

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"Born into a tenant farming family in North Carolina in 1946, Mary Louise, Mary Ann, Mary Alice, and Mary Catherine were medical miracles. Annie Mae Fultz, a Black-Cherokee woman who lost her ability to hear and speak in childhood, became the mother of America's first surviving set of identical quadruplets. They were instant celebrities. Their White doctor named them after his own family members. He sold the rights to use the sisters for marketing purposes to the highest-bidding formula company. The girls lived in poverty, while Pet Milk's profits from a previously untapped market of Black families skyrocketed. Over half a century later, baby formula is a seventy-billion-dollar industry and Black mothers have the lowest breastfeeding rates in the [...].

Über den Autor

Andrea Freeman is Professor at the University of Hawai'i at M¿noa William S. Richardson School of Law. Freeman writes and researches at the intersection of critical race theory and issues of food policy, health, and consumer credit. She is the pioneer of the theory of "food oppression," which examines how partnerships between the government and corporations lead to racial and gender health disparities. Her work has been featured on NPR, Huffington Post, Salon, The Washington Post, The Conversation, Pacific Standard, and more.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: A Formula for Discrimination

1. The Famous Fultz Quads

2. Black Breastfeeding in America

4. The Bad Black Mother

5. When Formula Rules

6. Legalizing Breast Milk

7. The Fultz Quads after Pet Milk

Conclusion: "First Food" Freedom

Erscheinungsjahr:	2021
Fachbereich:	Internationales & ausländ. Recht
Genre:	Importe , Recht
Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781503628960
ISBN-10:	1503628965
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Freeman, Andrea
Hersteller:	Stanford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	226 x 150 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Andrea Freeman
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.05.2021
Gewicht:	0,428 kg

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