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Author Doucet-Battle, James, author.
Title Sweetness in the blood : race, risk, and type 2 diabetes / James Doucet-Battle.
Publisher Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2021]



Descript 1 online resource (xviii, 208 pages)
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Contents Abbreviations -- Introduction. Sugar’s racial project: from slavery to diabetes -- 1. The at-risk ethnographer of sweetness -- 2. Sweet blood: inventing the prediabetic -- 3. Algorithms of risk and race: recruiting Black risk and marketing Black bodies -- 4. A dark past in present light: the Black church, medicine, and trust -- 5. The ascension of the Black matriarch: the search for metabolic Africa -- Conclusion. The racialized pancreas: toward biosocial justice -- Acknowledgments -- A subversive glossary -- Notes -- Index.
ISBN 9781452962313 (ebook)
1452962316
9781452962306 (electronic bk.)
1452962308 (electronic bk.)
9781517908485 (library binding)
9781517908492 (paperback)
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Author Doucet-Battle, James, author.
Subject Type 2 diabetes -- Genetic aspects.
African Americans -- Health and hygiene.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Medical anthropology.
Descript 1 online resource (xviii, 208 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Abbreviations -- Introduction. Sugar’s racial project: from slavery to diabetes -- 1. The at-risk ethnographer of sweetness -- 2. Sweet blood: inventing the prediabetic -- 3. Algorithms of risk and race: recruiting Black risk and marketing Black bodies -- 4. A dark past in present light: the Black church, medicine, and trust -- 5. The ascension of the Black matriarch: the search for metabolic Africa -- Conclusion. The racialized pancreas: toward biosocial justice -- Acknowledgments -- A subversive glossary -- Notes -- Index.
ISBN 9781452962313 (ebook)
1452962316
9781452962306 (electronic bk.)
1452962308 (electronic bk.)
9781517908485 (library binding)
9781517908492 (paperback)
Author Doucet-Battle, James, author.
Subject Type 2 diabetes -- Genetic aspects.
African Americans -- Health and hygiene.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Medical anthropology.

Subject Type 2 diabetes -- Genetic aspects.
African Americans -- Health and hygiene.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Medical anthropology.
Descript 1 online resource (xviii, 208 pages)
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents Abbreviations -- Introduction. Sugar’s racial project: from slavery to diabetes -- 1. The at-risk ethnographer of sweetness -- 2. Sweet blood: inventing the prediabetic -- 3. Algorithms of risk and race: recruiting Black risk and marketing Black bodies -- 4. A dark past in present light: the Black church, medicine, and trust -- 5. The ascension of the Black matriarch: the search for metabolic Africa -- Conclusion. The racialized pancreas: toward biosocial justice -- Acknowledgments -- A subversive glossary -- Notes -- Index.
ISBN 9781452962313 (ebook)
1452962316
9781452962306 (electronic bk.)
1452962308 (electronic bk.)
9781517908485 (library binding)
9781517908492 (paperback)

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