KWANDO M. KINSHASA is Associate Professor of Sociology, and Chair, African American Studies Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York. He is author of Black Resistance to the Ku Klux Klan in the Wake of the Civil War (forthcoming in 2006), The Man From Scottsboro: Clarence Norris and the Infamous 1931 Alabama Rape Trial, in His Own Words (1998), and Emigration vs. Assimilation: The Debate in the African American Press: 1827-1861 (1988). His research interests include 19th-Century history with particular emphasis on the sociological consequences of migration and emigration patterns within African American communities.
