[Euromixproject.rch] CMRS Book Talk: Mixed-Race in the US and UK with Drs. Jennifer Patrice Sims and Chinelo L. Njaka, 6 May 2021

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Book Talk: Mixed-Race in the US and UK with Drs. Jennifer Patrice Sims and Chinelo L. Njaka,
6 May 2021

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Our third book talk is on May 6, 2021 at 9:30AM EDT/ 13:30 GMT/ 14:30 BST. We’ll hear from Drs. Jennifer Patrice Sims and Chinelo L. Njaka on their recently released book, Mixed-Race in the US and UK: Comparing the Past, Present, and Future.<https://www.tinyurl.com/mixedraceusuk> We’ll begin with a presentation by the authors, followed by informal conversation, and ending with live Q&A with the audience!

Contributing to an emerging literature on mixed-race people in the United States and United Kingdom, this book draws on racial formation theory and the performativity (i.e. “doing”) of race to explore the social construction of mixedness on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

In addition to macro- and micro-level theoretical frameworks, the authors use comparative and relational analytical approaches to reveal similarities and differences between the two nations, explaining them in terms of both common historical roots as well as ongoing contemporary interrelationships.

Focusing on the census, racial identity, civil society, and everyday experiences at the intersection of race, gender, class, and sexuality, Mixed-Race in the US and UK: Comparing the Past, Present, and Future offers academics and students an intriguing look into how mixed-race is constructed and experienced within these two nations.


Jennifer Patrice Sims is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Originally from Nashville, TN, she received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison in 2014 and then taught as an Adjunct Visiting Professor at UW-River Falls before joining UAH in 2017.

Dr. Sims specializes in the study of race/ethnicity, social psychology, and gender and sexuality. Taking mixed-race people as her main focus, her research examines racial construction, perception, and identity in the US and UK. She has conducted statistical analysis of survey data to examine perceptions of mixed-race attractiveness and qualitative interviews to study mixed-race people’s everyday experiences. Her most recent work offers empirically grounded theoretical insights into mixed-race identity development (2016, 2018, 2019) and the influence of hairstyle on racial perception (2020).


Chinelo L. Njaka is the Founder and Director of Peckham Rights! and an independent social researcher based in London, UK. She is a Nigerian-American who grew up in Minnesota, USA and later moved to the UK for postgraduate studies. She holds a MA in Culture, Globalisation and the City from the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2005. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Manchester in 2017.

Dr. Njaka’s research interests include race and ethnicity, cross-national comparison, organisational studies, community development, and the African Diaspora—particularly in the European context. Her work examines racialisation processes in different national, institutional, and organisational contexts.

Photo credits are attributed to Dr. Paul Wright.


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