An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1 (Black & African-American Studies)

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Description: Amazon.com Review Gunnar Myrdal belongs in a category with Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur--non-American authors who have written essential works on the American character. In 1954, the Swedish-born Myrdal delivered this massive (and massively influential) book on the status of American blacks. It is a somewhat depressing account of segregation and lynch law, but it is also full of optimism. Myrdal's hopefulness appears to have been justified. Black Americans still face many problems, but their place in American life has much improved, thanks to a near-complete revolution in racial attitudes among whit ... (more)

Manufacturer: Routledge
Release date: 1 February 1995
ISBN-10 : 1560008563 | ISBN-13: 9781560008569

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