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03633aam a22003978i 4500 001 41189634433911EF824246BD21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240716010423 008 231228s2024 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023055948 020 $a 1250871042 020 $a 9781250871046 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a HD9005 $b .F734 2024 082 00 $2 23/eng/20240229 100 1 $a Freeman, Andrea $c (Associate Professor of Law), $e author. 245 10 $a RUIN THEIR CROPS ON THE GROUND : $b THE POLITICS OF FOOD IN THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE TRAIL OF TEARS TO SCHOOL LUNCH / $c Andrea Freeman. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2407 264 1 $a New York : $b Metropolitan Books, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 500 $a 2024/07/16 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : 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 "ruintheir 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 drawson 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 frommissions 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 evenpremature 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Food supply $x Social aspects $z United States. 650 0 $a Food security $z United States. 650 0 $a Food industry and trade $z United States. $9 82311 650 0 $a Agricultural industries $x Government policy $z United States. 651 0 $a United States $x Territorial expansion. $9 76756 650 0 $a Nutrition policy $z United States. $9 85600 650 0 $a Food law and legislation $z United States. $9 93038 941 $a 2 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240716063118.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20240716012449.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=41189634433911EF824246BD21ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search