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Episode 1328

Race, consumption and the politics of sugar / James Doucet-Battle

Apr 27 2021

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James Doucet-Battle

New forms of sweetness: Race, science, social risk and the biopolitics of sugar.

Anthropologist James Doucet-Battle on the biopolitics of sugar and diabetes, racialized science and social risk and his book Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes from University of Minnesota Press.

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