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Maureen Kihika is a race labour scholar with teaching and research interests in the Africa/African Diaspora, global political economy, migration, race, ethnicity, gender, feminism, and the dynamics of labour/work and identity formation. Her work analyzes how categories of social difference shape the experiences and identities of racialized Black workers within their communities. Dr. Kihika's research historicizes the socio-economic inequalities faced by Black Canadians, exploring how community strategies navigate systemic marginalization in a capitalist transnational society. She engages with the issues surrounding the social livelihoods that shape identity formation, specifically investigating the ongoing global protests against anti-Black racism, including the embodied Black Lives Matter movement and its impact on identity formations among Generation Y Black Canadian labour force participants. Dr. Kihika is dedicated to knowledge mobilization and has contributed to the Canadian Review of Sociology by participating in the Committing Sociology Symposium focused on African-Canadians and anti-Black racism, in addition to giving talks on her work in various academic and community settings.
Department of Philosophy