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Author Jackson, Walter A.

Title Gunnar Myrdal and America's conscience : social engineering and racial liberalism, 1938-1987 / Walter A. Jackson.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1990.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.0973 J14G    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 447 pages : portraits ; 25 cm.
Series The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-434) and index.
Awards Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 1991.
Contents Introduction: The Race Issue in the 1930s -- Finding a Tocqueville -- Frederick Keppel and the Carnegie Corporation -- Newton Baker's Proposal -- Foundations and Black Americans -- "Exceptional Men," Colonial Administrators, and Scandinavians -- Social Engineering and Prophylactic Reform -- The Making of an Intellectual Aristocrat -- Marriage to Alva and Apprenticeship to Cassel -- First Visit to America, 1929-1930 -- Social Democratic Reform -- Sweden's "Population Crisis" -- Encountering the "Negro Problem" -- Initial Impressions -- An Absence of Consensus -- A Royal Commission for the "Negro Problem" -- On the Road -- Myrdal and Bunche -- My War Work -- "The World's Problem in Miniature" -- Contact with America -- Conflicts of Conscience -- "The Limits of Optimism" -- Democratic Internationalism or American Imperialism? -- Myrdal and the July 20, 1944, Plot to Kill Hitler -- An American Dilemma: The Text -- The American Creed and Institutional Change -- Race, Population, and Migration -- Economics -- Politics, Justice, and Social Equality -- Negro Politics, Culture, and Community -- Racial Justice in a Global Context -- The Study to End All Studies -- The Race Issue in 1944 -- Acclaim in the National Press -- Afro-American and White Southern Reactions -- The Reception in Scholarly Journals -- The Divided Left -- The Emerging Orthodoxy and Neglected Alternatives -- The Rise and Fall of a Liberal Orthodoxy -- The Growing Legitimacy of Civil Rights -- Intercultural Education, Prejudice, and Damage.
Subject Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987. American dilemma.
Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Sociale situatie.
Rassendiscriminatie.
Nobelpristagare -- Sverige -- biografi.
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Race discrimination. (OCoLC)fst01086465
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Chronological Term Since 1900
Indexed Term Myrdal, Gunnar American dilemma
Race discrimination History 20th century United States
United States Social conditions 1933-1945
United States Social conditions 1945-
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 0807819115 (alk. paper)
9780807819111 (alk. paper)
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