Skimmed : breastfeeding, race, and injustice / Andrea Freeman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freeman, Andrea (Associate Professor of Law), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pet Milk Company--Influence.

Pet Milk Company.

African American infants--Nutrition--History.

African American infants.

Infant formulas--United States--Marketing--History.

Infant formulas.

African Americans in advertising--History.

African Americans in advertising.

Breastfeeding--United States--History.

Breastfeeding.

Health and race--United States--History.

Health and race.

Quadruplets--United States--Biography.

Quadruplets.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Standford, California : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

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 country. Since slavery, legal, political, and societal factors have routinely denied Black women the ability to choose how to feed their babies. In Skimmed, Andrea Freeman tells the riveting story of the Fultz quadruplets while uncovering how feeding America's youngest citizens is awash in social, legal, and cultural inequalities. This book highlights the making of a modern public health crisis, the four extraordinary girls whose stories encapsulate a nationwide injustice, and how we can fight for a healthier future.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

Introduction. A FORMULA FOR DISCRIMINATION

Chapter 1. THE FAMOUS FULTZ QUADS

Chapter 2. BLACK BREASTFEEDING IN AMERICA

Chapter 3. RACE-TARGETED FORMULA MARKETING

Chapter 4. THE BAD BLACK MOTHER

Chapter 5. WHEN FORMULA RULES

Chapter 6. LEGALIZING BREAST MILK

Chapter 7. THE FULTZ QUADS AFTER PET MILK

Conclusion. “FIRST FOOD” FREEDOM

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503610811

1503610810

OCLC:

1162107776