Africa at Noon: Ethnoracism in Settler and Colonial Societies – The Case of Black Immigrants in the United States with Mosi Ifatunji

Date/Time: March 8th 2023, @12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Speaker: Mosi Ifatunji – Sociology, UW-Madison

Hosted by: Luís Madureira

BIO

Mosi Adesina Ifatunji is an Assistant Professor in the Department of African American Studies and the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He is also a Faculty Associate at the Program for Research on Black Americans, which is located in the Research Center for Group Dynamics, at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; and a Research Scientist at the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Before joining the faculty at Madison, he held teaching and faculty appointments at Ann Arbor (at the Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (in the Department of Sociology, at the Institute for African American Research and at the Carolina Population Center). His work has been supported by the American Sociological Association and the National Institutes of Health. His contributions have been published in Sociological Forum, Sociological Perspectives, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and the Du Bois Review. He is also the Inaugural recipient of the James S. Jackson Emerging Scholars Award from the Program for Research on Black Americans.