Dr. Kwando Mbiasso Kinshasa is the Chairperson of the African American Studies Department and author of several books on migration and social violence. These works include: Emigration and Assimilation: The Debate in the African American Press, 1827, 1861 (McFarland, 1988); The Man from Scottsboro: Clarence Norris and the Infamous 1931 Alabama Trial, In His Own Words (McFarland, 2003); and Black Resistance to the Ku Klux Klan in the Wake of Civil War (McFarland 2006). Dr. Kinshasa was part of the Advisory Board for the 2001 production of the award winning film documentary Scottsboro: An American Tragedy. Dr. Kinshasa’s research into south/north migration and social conflict has resulted in the publication of a number of articles on African Caribbean migration in the 20th century particularly from such countries as Guyana and Surinam. One published article titled, “From Surinam to the Holocaust” (The Journal of Caribbean History, 2002), examined the relatively unknown history of Surinam anti-Nazi resistance fighters in Holland and the social psychological stresses of Surinam blacks in occupied Holland during World War Two. As an extension of his interest in migration and social conflict, his recently published African American Chronology: Chronologies of the American Mosaic (Greenwood Press, 2006) is a compilation of events and circumstances experienced by people of African ancestry within the American social and political construct. Dr. Kinshasa is presently researching the relationship of African American migration to the social construction of black criminality from 1865 to 1900.