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catalyst-28805	Hatch, Anthony Ryan	The Metabolic Fetish: Introduction to Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America	2016		.htm	text/html	2684	74	24	Because of historical and current federal research policies that regulate demographic data collection, statistical information about a research subject’s race and ethnicity is routinely collected along with anthropomorphic, molecular, and genetic information about the subject’s metabolism.4 Therefore, the sampling frames, analytic strategies, and research findings of metabolic syndrome research studies are often framed using these racial and ethnic categories. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) document substantial and persistent racial disparities in the distribution of and complications from these major chronic metabolic conditions.13 For decades, social epidemiologists have documented such disparities among racial and ethnic minority groups.14 This research on racial health disparities reveals that African Americans and other racially categorized minority groups experience higher rates of death owing to chronic metabolic diseases and higher rates of complications from those diseases, in large part because of the interactive dynamics of racism, sexism, and class inequality on health.15  This body of literature on racial health disparities has received less attention in terms of making a theoretical contribution to critical race theory, science and technology studies, or political sociology, and instead has been more embraced in the fields of social epidemiology and public health.	cache/catalyst-28805.htm	txt/catalyst-28805.txt