"First food" justice: Racial disparities in infant feeding as food oppression

Fordham Law Review

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 3053-3087

  Freeman, Andrea ^a  

^a University of Hawaii William S Richardson School of Law   (United States)

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