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020			_a9781250871046 _q(hardcover)
020			_z9781250871053 _q(ebook)
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050	0	0	_aHD9005 _b.F734 2024
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100	1		_aFreeman, Andrea _c(Associate Professor of Law),
245	1	0	_aRuin their crops on the ground : _bthe politics of food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to school lunch / _cAndrea Freeman.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2407
264		1	_aNew York : _bMetropolitan Books, _c2024.
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction : the palatable is political -- Weapons of health destruction -- Survival pending revolution -- Americanization through homemaking -- The unbearable whiteness of milk -- School food failure -- Racist food marketing -- What's law got to do with it?
520			_a"The first and definitive history of the use of food in American law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era In 1789, to subjugate Indigenous tribes, George Washington ordered his troops to "ruin their crops on the ground and prevent them planting more." Destroying the sources of food is just one way that the United States has used nourishment as a political tool. To prevent enslaved people from or escaping or rising up, enslavers restricted their consumption, providing only the least desirable and nutritious foods. Since the Great Depression, school lunches have served as dumping grounds for unwanted agricultural surpluses. From frybread to government cheese, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground draws on fifteen years of research to argue that American food law and policy have historically been used to create and maintain racial and cultural inequality. In an epic, sweeping account, Andrea Freeman, who pioneered the term "food oppression," moves from missions to Americanize immigrant food culture to the commodities supplied to Native reservations to USDA nutrition programs to milk as symbol of white nationalism. She traces the long-standing alliances between Washington and the food and agricultural industries that have produced gaping racial health disparities. And she shows how these practices continue to this day, in the form of marketing for unhealthy subsidized goods that target communities of color, causing diabetes, high blood pressure and even premature death. Marrying Michael Pollan's insights into food psychology with Michelle Alexander's new understanding of race in the United States, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground is a groundbreaking addition to the history and politics of food. It will permanently upend the notion that we freely and equally choose what we put on our plates"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAgricultural industries _xGovernment policy _zUnited States.
650		0	_aFood industry and trade _zUnited States.
650		0	_aFood law and legislation _zUnited States.
650		0	_aFood security _zUnited States.
650		0	_aFood supply _xSocial aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aNutrition policy _zUnited States.
651		0	_aUnited States _xTerritorial expansion.
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