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Mosi Adesina Ifatunji* is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC). His primary research interests include racial ideology and inequality, immigration and migration and mixed methods research methodology. Mosi has maintained academic and research fellowships throughout his graduate training, including the prestigious American Sociological Association, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2007-2010). He is currently completing his dissertation at the Race and Difference Iniciative at Emory University. His dissertation is entitled, "Are Black Immigrants a Model Minority? Race, Ethnicity and Social Inequality in the United States." In his dissertation he employs the case of the "Negro Immigrant" as a naturally occurring scientific experiment in an effort to isolate the relative roles of "color" and "culture" in the production of persistent racial inequality in America.

   







"We have suffered much and may suffer more; let us not be driven from our position by any threats."
- Congressman Robert Brown Elliot, 1870
  
     
  
Mosi A. Ifatunji. Graduate Student. University of Illinois at Chicago.
Department of Sociology. Telephone (312) 607-2825. Email: mosi@ifatunji.com .
For the latest on race, ethnicity and migration in the  Black Diaspora follow: @ifatunji .