JIM CROW:
A POSTMORTEM POLITICAL ANALYSIS
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Even though to scholarship on racial disparity in the United is extensive, Dr. Orok as a political scientist feels the compulsion to add an immigrant perspective and analysis to the political discourse. He presents a compelling argument that while American jurisprudence have rendered Jim Crow laws explicitly impractical, the vestiges of its consequences are still alive and requires a new set of strategies with a moral political will in order to improve in many cases the current observed undesirable human conditions still experienced by minorities in the United States.
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This book was inspired by research projects undertaken by the author in the United States as an African immigrant about the frustration regarding the condition of African American life over fifty years after "Jim Crow. Many books that are published about African American Life are written by scholars who were born in the United States and some had first-hand experiences with many of the discriminating laws of the past. This African immigrant takes an outside look and attempts in this book to document some historical antecedents that weave together the complex reality of African American life in the United States. This phenomenological work utilizes a descriptive approach to document and demonstrate the many tenets of American political life, with special emphasis on racial turbulence and inequalities where such becomes a historically significant dominant culture. This work also includes contemporary discourse that sheds some light on how far America has come racially and any prognoses for the future based on the evidence in the literature. While the material is inconclusive, it serves as a spatial utilization of past research information, life experiences with cumulative literature aimed at adding to the discourse about issues relating to African American life. It is expected to enrich the scholarship and probably the polemics in African American and minority studies in the United States.
About the Author
Michael E. Orok has more than twenty-six years of experience in higher education performing in many teaching and administrative capacities, in addition to serving as a rural community and economic development advocate. He currently serves as the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. Formerly, he was the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Tennessee State University; Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Graduate Studies; Interim Dean of the School of Graduate Studies; tenured Professor of Political Science and Director of International Programs at Alabama A & M University (AAMU) in Huntsville, Alabama; and Department Chair and Special Assistant to the Vice President for Academic Affairs at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia, among his many academic and administrative positions. He has received many national awards and recognition. He is a 2005 graduate of the Millennium Leadership Institute of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and is listed as a lifetime member of the Cambridge “Who’s Who” registry of executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs. He is the principal consultant with the Orok Consulting Group, LLC, a minority public management, public policy, and academic consulting enterprise. Dr. Orok holds a B.A. in Political Science from Central State University (Ohio), an M.A. in Management and Supervision (Public Administration) from Central Michigan University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta) in Georgia.