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
Summary
"James Doucet-Battle offers an important critical examination of the assumptions behind the recruitment of African American and African-descent populations for Type 2 diabetes research"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 07, 2021)
