Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Freeman, Andrea
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Freeman, Andrea

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in HistoryWinner of the James Beard Media Award in...
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Author: Andrea Freeman
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Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Freeman, Andrea

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

$45.55
Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch by Freeman, Andrea

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch

$45.55
Author: Andrea Freeman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
Winner of the James Beard Media Award in Food Issues and Advocacy

The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era

In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to "ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more." Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as a political tool. Trying to prevent enslaved people from rising up, enslavers restricted their consumption, providing only enough to fuel labor. 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 over fifteen years of research to argue that U.S. food law and policy have created and maintained racial and social inequality. In an epic, sweeping account, Andrea Freeman, who pioneered the term "food oppression," moves from colonization to slavery to the Americanization of immigrant food culture, to the commodities supplied to Native reservations, to milk as a symbol of white supremacy. She traces the long-standing alliance between the government and food industries that have produced gaping racial health disparities, and she shows how these practices continue to this day, through the marketing of unhealthy goods that target marginalized communities, causing diabetes, high blood pressure, and premature death.

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.

Author: Andrea Freeman
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 07/16/2024
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.52h x 6.37w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781250871046


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 02/01/2024 pg. 12
Booklist 05/01/2024 pg. 16
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2024
Publishers Weekly 05/20/2024

About the Author
Andrea Freeman, a pioneer in the field of food politics, is the Second Century Chair professor of law at Southwestern Law School. A Fulbright scholar and author of Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice, Freeman has published and appeared in the Washington Post, Salon, The Takeaway, Here & Now, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Black Agenda Report, and more. She lives in Los Angeles.
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