AFAM Welcomes Visiting Associate Professor Chinyere Osuji

The college welcomes Dr. Chinyere Osuji as a Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies. Her research examines how Africans and Afro-descendants negotiate ethnic and racial boundaries and its implications for justice and equity.

Her first book, "Boundaries of Love: Interracial Marriage and the Meaning of Race" (NYU Press, 2019) compares how Black-White couples in Brazil and the United States understand and negotiate racial boundaries. The book relies on over 100 interviews with Black-White couples in the United States and Brazil to compare how national ideologies, gender and other social categories yield particular meanings of race and race-mixing.

She is currently conducting interviews with first and second-generation African immigrants in the nursing profession to understand ethnoracial boundaries and white supremacy in the nursing profession from a critical and intersectional perspective. This project will provide a new lens to understand the racial politics of healthcare and the role of nursing in addressing health inequalities—issues made more salient with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Osuji’s research has won awards from the Population Association of America and the American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities.

Published on Tue, Aug 31, 2021 - 9:07AM