Author of the Month: Dr. Gerald S. Nordé

Author Reputation Press is proud to announce this month’s featured author: Dr. Gerald S. Nordé. Our Author of the Month citation recognizes the excellence of our authors in their chosen genre, awarded based on a unique set of guidelines, including the author’s impact on the readers.

Dr. Nordé is the author of the sociological books Peculiar Affinity, Reparations for Black, Negro, and Colored Americans, and The Patriarchy Of White American Slave Owners. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware, where he holds the distinction as the first Black American to graduate with a doctorate in sociology.

Prior to that, Dr. Nordé earned his M.S. in education and a B.A. in Spanish from the Southern Illinois University. He spent more than 25 years in teaching public elementary, middle, and high schools, and charter schools.

He has also been an assistant professor in the departments of sociology and criminal justice at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and Central State University in Ohio. His adjunct teaching experiences in sociology and criminal justice include the George Washington University, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, and University of the District of Columbia. His ongoing research interests include inner-city teenage fatherhood and the social constructs of racism.

His book, Peculiar Affinity, sheds light on the discovery of the sexual and reproductive relations between the South’s slave owners and their female slaves during the second era of slavery in the United States. Dr. Nordé calls these relations as the peculiar affinity between slave owners and their female slaves. This resulted in the birth of millions of children who were born as commodities and as Negro slaves at the same time.

Reparations for Black, Negro, and Colored Americans offers a scientific foundation reaffirming the reparation for the victims of slavery in the past. The author says that these reparations must be based on the money, profit, and wealth generated through the buying and selling of any Black, Negro, and Colored Americans as a “commodity” in the open markets during the American “domestic slave era”.

The Patriarchy Of White American Slave Owners tackles slavery in the United States between 1807 and 1865 (the second slave era in the USA), the systemic patriarchy and the fatherhood practices of the White American slave owners in the USA.

Dr. Nordé is the founder of the juvenile justice program, Corrections Learning America ’76”, for the State of Illinois involving five states in America with the Inter State Compact Corrections Agreement. He also led a staff of five and wardened 24 juvenile prisoners while traveling down 600 miles of the Mississippi River on two pontoon prison boats for six weeks.

Dr. Nordé received the International Adele Mellen Prize for its Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in 2014, among his other achievements.