Description |
xxi, 447 pages : portraits ; 25 cm. |
Series |
The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies |
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Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
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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.
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Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
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Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Sociale situatie.
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Rassendiscriminatie.
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Nobelpristagare -- Sverige -- biografi.
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Race discrimination. (OCoLC)fst01086465
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Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Chronological Term |
Since 1900
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Indexed Term |
Myrdal, Gunnar American dilemma |
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Race discrimination History 20th century United States |
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United States Social conditions 1933-1945 |
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United States Social conditions 1945- |
Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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ISBN |
0807819115 (alk. paper) |
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9780807819111 (alk. paper) |
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