Blood sugar : racial pharmacology and food justice in Black America / Anthony Ryan Hatch.

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

xii, 166 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Race, biomedicine, and health injustice -- The emergence of metabolic syndrome -- The scientific racism of metabolism -- Killer applications : the racial pharmacology of prescription drugs -- Sugar stained with blood : African Americans, sugar, and modern agriculture -- Metabolic insurrection.