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Bitter Sweet: The Power of Sugar in Globalization
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Drawing from Sidney Mintz’s influential book Sweetness and Power, University of Toronto anthropologist Professor Shirley Yeung explains in an interview with Julia Chapman how sugar transformed from a luxury good to a global commodity intertwined with colonialism, labour exploitation, and economic systems.
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