Event type:

In person

Date & time:

27 Oct 2020, 13:00 – 14:00

VIRTUAL EVENT: Boundaries of love: Black-White couples in Brazil and the United States

Dr Chinyere Osuji will challenge the naïveté that interracial couples and their children provide an antidote to racism and erase racial boundaries.

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VIRTUAL EVENT: Boundaries of love: Black-White couples in Brazil and the United States

27 Oct 2020, 13:00 – 14:00

Dr. Chinyere Osuji

Assistant Professor

Rutgers University-Camden

Dr. Chinyere Osuji is a writer, sociologist, and Assistant Professor. She is the author of Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race (2019, NYU Press) comparing the Black-White couples in Brazil and the United States.

A former fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Africana Studies, her work has been recognized by the American Sociological Association (ASA), the Population Association of America (PAA), and the University of Michigan National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID).

She is writing a book on how African immigrants negotiate xenophobia and anti-blackness in the US nursing profession. She speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese. 
 

Further information

Ticketing

Pre-booking essential

Cost

Free

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Organiser

Jenny Woodman

j.woodman@ucl.ac.uk