{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f89845894287d58c98a397f/62cec0060964ca0012a0de14?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"In conversation with James Doucet-Battle","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/5f89845894287d58c98a397f/1657715819024-1b68b7594e9ad2b3ebb5ff5f10913d6e.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Medical anthropologist, James Doucet-Battle, joins us to talk about his book, <em>Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk and Type 2 Diabetes.</em> Discussing the importance of delinking race from risk in order to tell a more holistic, anthropological story of what it means to be Black, James brings autobiographical elements into his work and explores the relationship between race, gender and ancestry, the mapping of Henrietta Lacks’ HeLa cells and his own journey into Black feminist thought.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Transcript:</strong> <a href=\"https://www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-james-doucet-battle\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/transcript-conversation-james-doucet-battle</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>This conversation was recorded on 9th June 2022</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Speakers: </strong><a href=\"https://www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/dr-paige-patchin\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Paige Patchin</a>, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity &amp; Postcolonial Studies, UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre&nbsp;//&nbsp;<a href=\"https://sociology.ucsc.edu/about/directory-faculty.php?uid=jbattle\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">James Doucet-Battle</a>, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz&nbsp;//&nbsp;Alya Harding, Elinor Gibbs and Liz Kombate, MA students in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies at UCL</p><p><strong>Producer and Editor: </strong><a href=\"https://www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/people/professional-services\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Kaissa Karhu</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href=\"http://www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">www.ucl.ac.uk/racism-racialisation/podcasts</a></p>","author_name":"UCL Sarah Parker Remond Centre"}