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My guest on the program, Dr. Paul Mullins, is the author of Glazed America,

History of the Donut Paul, is a professor at Indiana University, Purdue University,

Indianapolis. He's the author of several other books, mostly on the topic of his academic

specialty, which is anthropology. Paul, welcome to the Sound of Young America.

Thanks for having me.

So the question is, for a guy who's focused his academic career on the intersections between

race and culture, why did you refocus on the intersection between sweet dough and hot boiling

oil?

Well, for me, actually, it's always about inequality and material culture and material consumption

and how we disagree over the meaning of objects.

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