Sugar: The Bitter Truth
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Food and Diaspora, Professor Sidney Mintz, SOAS University of London

•Jun 27, 2017

SOAS University of London

This recently rediscovered Distinguished Lecture titled "Food and Diaspora" was given by Professor Sidney Mintz (Johns Hopkins University) at the launch of two new SOAS research centres: The SOAS Food Studies Centre & The SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies on 11 October 2007 You can find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/oh5fbg https://www.soas.ac.uk/foodstudies/ https://www.soas.ac.uk/migrationdiasp... Sidney W. Mintz is a Research Professor in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. A pioneering scholar in Afro-Caribbean studies and in the Anthropology of Food, Professor Mintz is the author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History, Caribbean Transformations, and Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom: Excursions into Eating, Culture, and the Past. The lecture will launch two new SOAS research centres: The SOAS Food Studies Centre & The SOAS Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies

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