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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). Mosi has maintained academic and research fellowships throughout his graduate training, including the prestigious American Sociological Association, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2007-2010). His primary research interests include racial ideology and inequality, immigration and migration and mixed methods research methodology. Mosi is currently working on his dissertation entitled, "Are Black Immigrants a Model Minority? Race, Ethnicity and Sociopolitical 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