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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
14. Jan. 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 ...
29. Jan. 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. The title of the book, 'An American Dilemma', refers to the moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its ...
- 1st Edition
22. Juli 2010 · There are many things in this book regarding the character of American democracy, the pernicious nature of white supremacist attitudes, and the conclusions regarding the historical position of African Americans ring true even 80 some years after its publication.
The central theme was signaled in the title: An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and American Democracy. This choice of words encapsulated the fundamental problem – the disjunction between the ideals of the ‘American creed’ and the observable social reality.
- William J. Barber
- 2008
"An American Dilemma: The Negro problem and modern democracy' by Gunnar Myrdal is the latest of a series of attempts to bring science to the solution of the race problem in America.
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...
