Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice

by Andrea Freeman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503628965
• ISBN13: 9781503628960
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"