Book
(Dis)entangled. Why Black Hair Can’t Be Just Hair, published by Coronet Books, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, July 2025
Featured Writings
Why Postpartum Hair Loss Felt Like Losing A Part of Myself, published on Grazia UK, July 2025
I loved watching my hair grow longer during pregnancy. But I wasn't prepared for it to start falling out, published on GLAMOUR, July 2025
Ein Nachwort auf Haare, published in A Book About Hair, 2024
‘Blackness disrupts my Germanness.’ On embodiment and questions of identity and belonging among women of colour in Germany, published in To Exist is To Resist: Black Feminism in Europe, 2019
Selected Academic Publications
Bialas, U., Lukate, J.M., Vertovec, S. (2025). Contested Categories in the context of international migration: introduction to the special issue. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(4), 695 - 717.
Lukate, J.M. (2025). Becoming Black? African migrants’ social identity constructions and experiences of racialization in Germany. Identity, 25(1), 134 - 152.
Coultas, C., Reddy, R., & Lukate, J.M. (2023). Towards a social psychology of precarity. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(S1), 1 - 20.
Lukate, J. M. (2023). On the precariousness of address: What narratives of being called White can tell us about researching and re/producing social categories in research. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(S1), 56 - 70.
Lukate, J.M., & Foster, J.L. (2023). ‘Depending on where I am…’ Hair, travelling and the performance of identity among Black and mixed-race women. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(1), 342 - 358.
Lukate, J.M. (2022). Space, race and identity: An ethnographic study of the Black hair care and beauty landscape and Black women's racial identity constructions in England, Journal of Social Issues, 78(1), 107 - 125.