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An American Dilemma - The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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An American Dilemma - The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Series: Black & African-American Studies
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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 highest ideals and awareness of the base
realities of racial discrimination. The touchstone of this classic
is the jarring discrepancy between the American creed of respect
for the inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and opportunity for
all and the pervasive violations of the dignity of blacks. The
appendices are a gold mine of information, theory, and methodology.
Indeed, two of the appendices were issued as a separate work given
their importance for systematic theory in social research. The new
introduction by Sissela Bok offers a remarkably intimate yet
rigorously objective appraisal of Myrdal-a social scientist who
wanted to see himself as an analytic intellectual, yet had an
unbending desire to bring about change. 'An American Dilemma' is
testimonial to the man as well as the ideas he espoused. When it
first appeared 'An American Dilemma' was called "the most
penetrating and important book on contemporary American
civilization" by Robert S. Lynd; "One of the best political
commentaries on American life that has ever been written" in The
American Political Science Review; and a book with "a novelty and a
courage seldom found in American discussions either of our total
society or of the part which the Negro plays in it" in 'The
American Sociological Review'. It is a foundation work for all
those concerned with the history and current status of race
relations in the United States.
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