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The Pandemicene Project launches website for student podcasts and blogs

How do we create knowledge that orients us towards justice at this critical historical juncture, in the middle of a viral pandemic, and a pandemic of social inequality and racial discrimination that has sparked global unrest? The SJRC Pandemicene Project to Re-world Towards Justice has launched a new website to host student podcasts and blogs!  The… Continue Reading The Pandemicene Project launches website for student podcasts and blogs

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Uncovering the social factors lurking within diabetes risk

Assistant Professor of Sociology and Interim SJRC Director (fall 2020) James Doucet-Battle’s new book challenges assumptions about race within diabetes research and delves into the issue through the lens of African American experience. Learn more in this campus news article, “Uncovering the social factors lurking within diabetes risk.”

UCSC arts professor documents spread of COVID-19 inside prisons, jails, and detention centers

The interactive web project by Film & Digital Media Professor Sharon Daniel creates cumulative public record and evolving history of the pandemic’s impact on those incarcerated. Exposed is the latest in a series of new media documentary projects created by Daniel that reveal social and economic injustice across public institutions, including the criminal justice system, the prison industrial complex,… Continue Reading UCSC arts professor documents spread of COVID-19 inside prisons, jails, and detention centers

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Forthcoming Book release! Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)

Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) challenges the notion that the best approach to understanding, managing, and curing Type 2 diabetes is through the lens of race. It also transforms how we think about sugar, filling a neglected gap between the sugar- and molasses-sweetened past of the enslaved African laborer and the high-fructose corn syrup- and corporate-fed body of the contemporary consumer-laborer. Continue Reading Forthcoming Book release! Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes (University of Minnesota Press, 2021)