SWLAW Blog
Southwestern Law Professor Andrea Freeman Wins 2025 L.A. Times Book Prize and James Beard Award
July 1, 2025
Professor Andrea Freeman has won two major national honors for her latest book, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, From the Trail of Tears to School Lunches. The book recently won the 2025 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History and the 2025 James Beard Media Award in the Food Issues and Advocacy category, recognizing Freeman’s groundbreaking analysis of how U.S. food law has been used to uphold racial and social inequality from colonization to the present.
