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Dr. Charles Amissah
Assistant Professor

charles.amissah@hamptonu.edu
Ph.D., University of Illinois-Chicago

Areas of Specialization: Social Stratification, African Diaspora

Courses Taught: Social Inequality, Social Problems, Issues in the African Diaspora, Sociology of International Development, Introduction to Social Research, Advanced Social Research

Advisor to: Sociology Club & International Sociological Honor Society, Alpha Kappa Delta

Recent Publications and Presentations at Conferences:

2002 "The Perception of the U.S. Labor Market by Black Sub-Saharan African Immigrants." National Journal of Sociology.13: 1-25
1997 "Advance and Retreat: Racially Based Attitudes and Public Policy." In Racial Attitudes in the 1990s: Continuity and Change, edited by Steven A. Tuch and Jack K. Martin [with Cedric Herring].

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"Sub-Saharan Africans in the U.S. Labor: The Market: The Cost of Being Black.." National Journal of Sociology 10:57-82

"African Immigrants' Participation in the US Labor Market." Paper presented at the Oxford Round Table, Oxford University, England

"African Racial Identity in the Americas." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, GA

"Perception of the US Labor Market by Black Sub-Saharan Immigants." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, LA

Professional Service:

Faculty Participant, Hampton University Technology Transfer Project Grant

Dr Amissah has reviewed manuscripts for the American Sociological Review, Sociological Inquiry, and Journal of African American Studies. In addition he has reviewed Geography books for John Wiley and Sons (publisher) and books on Deviance for Roxbury Publishing Company, as well as evaluated research proposals for the National Science Foundation.

Attended the UNCF/Mellon Mentors and Coordinators Conference in Atlanta.( Fall)

Current Work in Progress:

"A Comparative Study of the Experience of African Immigrants in Europe and the United States"