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• producing biomedical knowledge?
• practices of metabolic syndrome?
• critical race theory,
• The commitment to social justice expressed in Blood Sugar involves linking an analysis of institutionalized forms of racial inequality and racial health disparities to a discursive analysis of racial meaning in biomedical constructions of metabolic syndrome.
• Because critical race theory provides a framework for analyzing metabolic syndrome as a site for the production of racial meaning and enactment of racist practices within American society, it is important to outline some of its distinguishing ideas.