Jim Black: Sales Representative by Steven L. McShane University of Western Australia Perth‚ Australia This case may be used by current adopters of: S. L. McShane & M. A. von Glinow‚ Organizational Behavior‚ 3rd ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill‚ 2005); S. L. McShane Canadian Organizational Behaviour‚ 5th ed. (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson‚ 2004); S. L. McShane & T. Travaglione‚ Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim‚ 1st ed. (Sydney: McGraw-Hill Australia‚ 2003) Copyright © 1995. Steven L. McShane
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No Democracy with the New Jim Crow The United States of America is proud to be known as the land of the free. Its representative democracy is supposed to hold the consent of all American citizens and make sure the constitution and equality is upheld; however‚ its state of government has been actively partaking in activities and rulings that do not benefit the whole of America. In fact‚ many of the state’s decisions have been working against specific racial minorities and creating a criminal justice
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racism have surfaced. In 1877 the United States government followed a racial caste system called Jim Crow. This racial caste system called for the separation of African-Americans and Caucasians in any situation or setting. These laws known as Jim Crow‚ violated the rights of African-Americans in their social activities‚ schooling‚ and through transportation; if it wasn’t for someone like Rosa Parks‚ Jim Crow would still be alive today. Rosa Parks was an African-American woman who one day unintentionally
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow digital history website explores the events‚ organizations‚ and lives of those present during the era when the Jim Crow laws existed. Jim Crow refers to the set of laws sanctioned by the government that allowed racial oppression and segregation in the United States from the Reconstruction era until the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s (The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow). This website provides personal narratives‚ photographs‚ original documents‚ a timeline of events‚
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Michelle Alexander’s book‚ “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”‚ essentially analyzes the United States criminal justice system. The main thesis/argument of her analysis is that mass incarceration constitutes a new system of racial oppression that is similar to slavery and the original Jim Crow. Furthermore‚ she claims that mass incarceration has had a profound impact on how criminal justice issues are interpreted today. She also argues that individuals who have fallen
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After the slaves were freed the production of the South dropped because they were part of the economic production system. The production of the landowners decreased because the labors who worked on their crops were the African Americans but were freed. However‚ here is where the Jim Crow laws came in by charging African American for minor crimes and imprisoning them to continue their slave work legally but in jail. What Jim Crows laws of segregation where that the African American were put in a second-class
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2nd the civil right act of 1964 was signed which put into law that segregation as illegal but ironically the Jim crow laws remained in effect. However‚ the major event that year was the racial violence between blacks and white that erupted in Selma Alabama. The voter’s rights movement‚ to sum up was when blacks marched out to Edmund Pettus Bridge‚ when they got there they were greeted by a wall of state troopers on the other side. They were attacked by the police with sticks‚ tear gas and other elements
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After reading and listening to the racism pieces I can conclude that racism was a huge problem that lead to unfair punishments and rules towards a certain group. Whites were very racist towards African Americans. Meaning they did not treat them the same and made ridiculous laws against them. The Jim Crow Laws would be an example of ridiculous laws. The set of laws restricted Blacks from many things‚ like going to the same school as whites or communicating with whites. A few reasons why there was
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This week’s readings discussed a concept called “The New Jim Crow” which is about how black people and Latino’s are most likely to get more prison time than their counter-parts even when the crime committed is the same. The author goes on to talk about how people who are black and brown get stopped more and searched than any other race. Personally‚ I think the reason why people who are black and brown are most likely to be stopped and searched is because ‚ in most cases they cannot afford a good
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Wright vs. Jim Crow: From the Ethics of Living Jim Crow by Richard Wright Social situations illustrate the power of how external pressures influence peoples’ reactions and responses. The pressures can often have a strong effect on their responses. Richard Wright’s "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow" illustrates his cruel childhood lesson of learning how to live with the prejudice and discrimination. It is an autobiographical sketch of the Negro experience in a white-dominant society. Whites
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