More than half a century has passed since the publication of "An
American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy," Gunnar
Myrdal's agonizing portrait of the pervasiveness of racially
prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory practices in American life.
Central to Myrdal's work was the paradox posed by the coexistence
of race-based social, economic, and political inequality on the one
hand, and the cherished American cultural values of freedom and
equality on the other. In the five decades since the publication of
this work, there has been a dramatic decline in white Americans'
overt expressions of anti-black and anti-integrationist sentiments
and in many of the inequalities Myrdal highlighted in his
monumental work. Yet the persistence of racial antipathy is
evidence of the continuing dilemma of race in American society.
This collection of original essays by leading race relations
experts focuses on the recent history and current state of racial
attitudes in the United States. It addresses key issues and debates
in the literature, and it includes chapters on the racial attitudes
of African-Americans as well as whites. The volume will be of great
importance to students and scholars concerned with the sociology
and politics of contemporary American race relations.
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