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Welcome!

A Bit About Me

My name, Chinyere [CHEEN-yair-ay] means "God gave" in the Igbo language. I grew up in Chicago in a large Nigerian/Igbo-American family and community. I love Giordano's Pizza, Korean dramas, and akara/acarajé.

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I write about how Black people around the world understand their interactions with racial and ethnic others. This includes Korean drama fandom, African immigrants in US nursing, interracial marriage in Brazil and the USA, and the immigrant rights movement. 

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I have given talks and keynotes about interracial marriage, life as a Black academic, and anti-blackness in Korean media.

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I am an Associate Professor in African American Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park.

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PhD Sociology. UCLA

MA Sociology. Harvard University

BA Sociology and Spanish. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Select Publications

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2019. Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race. New York: NYU Press.

2019. “Freedom and Frustration: Rachel Dolezal and the Meaning of Race.” Contexts: Sociology for the Public. Based on the blog post entitled “Rachel Dolezal: ‘Negra Frustrada’ (Frustrated Black Woman)” located here.
 

2019. Comment, “Cross-Domain Comparison and the Politics of Difference” by Rogers Brubaker and Matías Fernández. British Journal of Sociology.

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2016. “An African/Nigerian-American Studying Black-White Couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro” in Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the USA and Brazil. Edited by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman and Gladys Mitchell-Walthour. Palgrave: New York, 123-138

 

(With Sylvia Zamora) 2014. “Mobilizing African Americans for Immigrant Rights: Framing Strategies in Two Multi-Ethnic Coalitions.” Latino Studies, 12: 424-448. 

 

2010. “Building Power for ‘Non-Citizen Citizenship:’ A Case Study of The Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Workers Organizing Network (MIWON).” In Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, and Victor Narro (ed.) Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy, Cornell University Press.

Publications

Talks and Media

I am available for speaking engagements, keynotes, and lectures. Below are some of my previous speaking engagements.

 

Please hit the contact button at the top to arrange a talk or appearance at your institution.

Keynotes

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Talks, Interviews, and Podcasts

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Talks
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