Freeman, Andrea

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    Unconstitutional Food Inequality
    (Harvard Civil Rights Civil Liberties Law Review, 2020-10) Freeman, Andrea
    Racial disparities in food-related deaths and disease are vestiges of slavery and colonization that have persisted for too long. Rhetoric around personal responsibility and cultural preferences obscure the structural causes of these disparities. Regulatory capture by the food industry makes reform through the political process unlikely or subject to severe limitations. This article explores the structural causes of food inequality by examining how two U.S.Department of Agriculture nutrition programs, the Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations and the National School Lunch Program, contribute to food-related health disparities. First, it traces food inequality back to slavery and colonization. Most slave owners carefully rationed out food to fuel labor but prevent revolts. On almost all plantations, enslaved people ate a non-nutritious diet that led to a plethora of nutrition-related illnesses and deaths. Similarly, colonization occurred in great part through the destruction of Indigenous food ways. Land theft, displacement, and the intentional elimination of food sources led to starvation and illness. Lack of access to healthy food still represents one of the most significant obstacles to Black and Indigenous Peoples’ full participation in society, contributing to lower life expectancy, serious illness, and cultural erasure.The Reconstruction Amendments provide a constitutional basis for challenging these two USDA nutrition programs, in addition to other laws and policies that lead to health disparities and food injustice.
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    Unmothering Black Women: Formula Feeding as an Incident of Slavery
    (Hastings Law Journal, 2018) Freeman, Andrea
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    Racism in the Credit Card Industry
    (North Carolina Law Review, 2017) Freeman, Andrea
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    Payback: A Structural Analysis of the Credit Card Problem
    (Arizona Law Review, 2013) Freeman, Andrea
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    Morris Communications v. PGA Tour: Battle over the Rights to Real-Time Sports Scores
    (Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 2005) Freeman, Andrea
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    Fast Food: Oppression Through Poor Nutrition
    (California Law Review, 2007) Freeman, Andrea
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    "First Food" Justice: Racial Disparities in Infant Feeding as Food Oppression
    (Fordham Law Review, 2015) Freeman, Andrea
    Tabitha Walrond gave birth to Tyler Isaac Walrond on June 27, 1997, when Tabitha, a black woman from the Bronx, was nineteen years old.^1 Four months before the birth, Tabitha, who received New York public assistance, attempted to enroll Tyler in her health insurance plan (HIP), but encountered a mountain of bureaucratic red tape and errors.^2 After several trips to three different offices in the city, Tabitha still could not get a Medicaid card for Tyler.^3 Tabitha's city caseworker informed her that she would have to wait until after Tyler's social security card and birth certificate arrived to get the card.^4 No doctor would see him without the Medicaid card.^5
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