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A Bit About Me
My name, Chinyere [CHEEN-yair-ay] means "God gave" in the Igbo language. I am the daughter of Nigerian immigrants who calls Chicago and Owerri home.
I have written about Black people around the world understand their interactions with racial and ethnic others. This includes everything from interracial marriage in the USA and Brazil, understanding the movement for immigrant rights, and Africans in the nursing profession.
I have given talks about interracial marriage and dating. I have also given keynotes about navigating life as a Black person in academia.
I am a Visiting Associate Professor at University of Maryland-College Park in African American Studies and Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University–Camden in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice.
PhD Sociology. UCLA
MA Sociology. Harvard
BA Sociology and Spanish. UIUC
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Select Publications
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.