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Reflections on the 'Unbearable Whiteness' of Milk
Our editor Isabela sits down with Alice Yao, an associate professor with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, to examine the gendered and racialized dimensions of milk.
This podcast features original music by the Electric Muffin Research Kitchen.
Read the transcript of the show here.
Further readings
Freeman, A. (2013). The Unbearable Whiteness of Milk: Food Oppression and the USDA. UC Irvine Law Review, Vol. 3, p. 1251, 2013. <https://ssrn.com/abstract=2338749>
Stănescu, V. (2018). ‘White Power Milk’: Milk, Dietary Racism, and the ‘Alt-Right’, Animal Studies Journal, 7(2), 103-128. <https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol7/iss2/7>
The Economist. (2015, March 28). No use crying: The ability to digest milk may explain how Europe got rich. <https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2015/03/28/no-use-crying>
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