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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a 1944 study of race relations authored by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The foundation chose Myrdal because it thought that as a non-American, he could offer a more unbiased opinion.
- Gunnar Myrdal
- 1944
Seventy-five years ago, Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal published the influential work, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. For Myrdal and his collaborators, the central dilemma was the unresolved tension of the “American creed”—the celebration of ideals of equal opportunity and democracy, in the face of deep and ...
Inequality and Injustice. Gender and Sexuality. Population and Migration. Race and the "Negro Problem". Politics. Economics. Leadership and Action.
29 gen 1995 · In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people.
- 1st Edition
14 gen 2021 · An American dilemma; the Negro problem and modern democracy. "At the most general level, Myrdal concluded that the essential determinant of racial relations was cultural rather than being based in economics ... or in social organization ... This massive study (launched and funded by the Carnegie Corporation) included an excellent ...
31 lug 2022 · an american dilemma. by. gunnar myrdal. Publication date. 1944. Publisher. harper and row, publishers new york and evanston. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled.
An American Dilemma helped to expose the immoral hypocrisy of legalized anti-Black racism in the US, and informed critical civil rights victories in the post-war era, such as the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
