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Dr. Mosi Adesina Ifatunji* is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and at the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While pursuing his doctorate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Mosi maintained several academic and research fellowships, including the prestigious American Sociological Association, Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (2007-2010). His primary research interests include: racial ideology and inequality; immigration and migration; and social stratification. His dissertation was entitled, "Are Black Immigrants a Model Minority? Race, Ethnicity and Social Inequality in the United States." In his dissertation he employed 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.

"Race is not rocket science. It is harder than rocket science."

- Christopher Edley, 2001
National Science Foundation