Fredrick Douglass Opie

Frederick Douglass Opie is associate professor of history and director of the African Diaspora Studies Program at Marist College. Interethnic contact informs Opie's writing and teaching, with his forthcoming book looking at African American migration to Caribbean Guatemala at the turn of the century. He is currently writing a history of African American and Latino relations in New York from 1930 to 2008 and lives with his wife and two children in New York's historic Hudson Valley.