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	An American Dilemma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a 1944 study of race relations authored by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal.
		He frankly concluded that the "Negro problem" is a "white man's problem." That is, whites as a collective were responsible for the disadvantageous situation in which fls were trapped.
		If the Negroes could be eliminated from America or greatly decreased in numbers, this would meet the whites' approval -- provided that it could be accomplished by means which are also approved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/An_American_Dilemma (352 words)

	An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. By Gunnar Myrdal
		Voluntary exportation of Negroes could not be carried on extensively because of unwillingness on the part of recipient nations as well as on the part of the American Negroes themselves, who usually do not want to leave the country but prefer to stay and fight it out here.
		A high death rate is an unhumanitarian and undemocratic way to restrict the Negro population and, in addition, expensive to society and dangerous to the white population.
		Negroes were 19.3 per cent of the American population in 1790, but only 9.8 per cent in 1940....
	www.via3.net /pooled/articles/BF_DOCART/view.asp?Q=BF_DOCART_106258 (1532 words)

	EH.Net Encyclopedia: Fair Housing Laws
		The difficult measurement problem is figuring out how much of the perceived decline in discrimination or improvement in fls’ housing is attributable to the anti-discrimination laws and how much is attributable to more general changes in discriminatory sentiment and in the economic resources of African Americans.
		Kain, John F. “Housing Segregation, Negro Employment, and Metropolitan Decentralization.” Quarterly Journal of Economics 82 (1968): 175-197.
		An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.
	www.eh.net /encyclopedia/article/collins.fair.housing (2177 words)

	Ralph Bunche \| Educational Resources \| Instructor's Notes \| Race and Politics
		In expressing the importance of studying the political behavior of fls, Bunche felt that the nation could not ignore one-tenth of the population and that, eventually, fls were going to gain an "equitable degree of influence in public affairs—local, state and national—of the nation "(Bunche 1928:64).
		He produced a number of scholarly papers on Negro leadership, ideologies, and tactics of Negro organizations, the political status of Negroes, and conceptualizations of the Negro problem, much of which was incorporated into the original study.
		Bunche’s insistence that the inclusion of fl Americans in the representative democracy of the United States was essential for the legitimacy and maintenance of that democracy was fundamental to his domestic work for civil rights and his international work for human rights.
	www.pbs.org /ralphbunche/education/instruct_race.html (1447 words)

	Public Interest: The prescience of Myrdal - Swedish economist and public servant Gunnar Myrdal
		Myrdal, a distinguished Swedish economist and public servant, had been invited by the Carnegie Corporation to study "The American Negro Problem." Traveling through the South and appalled by the racism he found, he nevertheless fell in love with the deeply racist country that he explored.
		Indeed, when asked in a 1944 survey whether "Negroes should have as good a chance as white people to get any kind of job," the majority of whites said that "white people should have the first chance at any kind of job." Blacks belonged at the back of the employment bus, most whites were convinced.
		The "Negro problem," as Myrdal saw it, was basically a white problem.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0377/is_n128/ai_19726631 (1522 words)

	SUNLINK WOTM - Black History
		The Negro in the armed forces, his value and status, past, present, and potential, 1945.
		The new Negro of the South: a portrait of movements and leadership, 1967.
		The status of the Negro, from a Negro's standpoint, in his own dialect.
	www.sunlink.ucf.edu /weed/archive/bHis.html (521 words)

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		The plaintiff there expressly agreed with the desirability and legality of segregating Negro and white children, and claimed only that a Chinese child should be classified as “white” in order to protect the Chinese child from the “risks and dangers” of association with Negro children (pp.
		The Court assumed that the schools for Negro children were equal to those for white children and ruled only that the question of classification of a person was not one meriting “full argument and consideration” (pp.
		These ill effects, not only on the Negro children but also on the community and the Nation, should be weighed against the insubstantial reasons of “usages, customs and traditions” which are based wholly on prejudice.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/curiae/html/347-483/017.htm (3689 words)

	RaceSci: History of Race in Science: Syllabi: Instructor's Guide, Race and Health
		The meaning of "race." "Encountering the Negro Problem: To the Negroes Themselves" in Gunnar Myrdal,10An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy(New York: Harper and Row, 1947), 27ff.
		Rousseau, "Le Cat and the Physiology of Negroes," in Racism in the Eighteenth Century,edited by Harold E. Pagliaro (Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1973), 369-386.
		Elmer A. Carter, "Eugenics for the Negro," pp.
	web.mit.edu /racescience/syllabi/instructors_guide_race_an.html (5850 words)

	UCLA Library Ralph Bunche Exhibit
		Ralph Bunche’s focus on issues related to race returned to the domestic sphere when in 1939 he began to work with Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal on a project to survey the conditions of fls in America, sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation.
		The final one, The Political Status of the Negro in the Age of FDR, was published posthumously in 1973.
		One of his most shocking findings was the extent of corruption in Southern political practices; he also criticized the extent of disenfranchisement of both fl and white voters and the lack of effective grassroots reform movements.
	www.library.ucla.edu /bunche/myrdal.html (440 words)

	African-American Bibliography- Education
		Records of Negro and Indian Graduates and Ex-Students, with Historical and Personal Sketches and Testimony on Important Race Questions from Within and Without, to Which are Added...Some of the Songs of the Races Gathered in the School.
		The Treatment of the Negro in American History School Textbooks: A Comparison of Changing Textbook Content, 1826 to 1939, with Developing Scholarship in the History of the Negro in the United States.
		Woodson, Carter G. The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861: A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War.
	www.africa.upenn.edu /Bibliography/AFAM_Education.html (5732 words)

	Gunnar Myrdal, Biography: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty
		As exploitative working conditions are gradually being abolished, this, of course, must benefit Negro workers most, as they have been exploited most—but only if they are allowed to keep their employment.
		As low wages and sub-standard labor conditions are most prevalent in the South, this danger is mainly restricted to Negro labor in that region.
		He was twice elected to Sweden's Parliament as senator (1934-36, 1942-46), was minister for trade and commerce (1945-47), and served as the executive secretary for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (1947-57).
	www.econlib.org /library/Enc/bios/Myrdal.html (650 words)

	Living Legacies
		He was a teenager when the publication of Gunner Myrdal’s An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem in Modern Democracy (1944) spotlighted the country’s racial issues and when President Truman integrated the military (1948), in which Hamilton served for a year.
		He would point out, for instance, that while espousing the ideals of freedom and democracy, most of the country’s founders were slave owners.
		His students had the privilege of listening to him as he outlined his preliminary thinking about the future of American democracy, ideas that would find their way onto many a printed page.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/alumni/Magazine/Spring2004/hamilton.html (2762 words)

	RICHARD WRIGHT - BLACK BOY - A Teacher's Guide
		Because the documentary contains scenes that portray Negro lynchings and an African woman's bare breasts, it is recommended that teachers and administrators below the college level review the program before showing it to students.
		Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945) by St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton, Native Son, Black Boy, The Outsider, Lawd Today!, Rite of Passage, Uncle Tom's Children, 12 Million Black Voices, and The Long Dream are relevant in discussions of the sociology of the South, race, and culture:
		Bullock, Henry A. A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present.
	www.newsreel.org /guides/richardw.htm (4187 words)

	The SocioWeb: Sociology Books » An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Black and ...
		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 whites and a highly successful civil rights movement.
		Writing against the backdrop of WWII, Myrdal confronted the contradiction between the US belief "All men are created equal") and the reality that African-Americans earned less for the same work as whites, lived in atrocious conditions, died at an earlier age.
		By Myrdal's own words, his study is quite thorough, encompassing not only every aspect of Negro life but examining the varied attitudes of the dominant white majority.
	www.socioweb.com /sociology-books/book/1560008563 (773 words)

	Rethinking the American Race Problem
		Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, Brooks sheds a new and clarifying light on America's longest running social and moral dilemma.
		This incisive book provides a bold new examination of the seemingly intractable racial problems confronting Americans at the end of the twentieth century.
		Brooks defines the American race problem so as to carefully separate racial oppression from (economic) class oppression and explains how civil rights legislation since the 1960s has hurt Black Americans of every class.
	www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/2499.html (640 words)

	Today in History: December 9
		In the time between earning graduate degrees in government and international relations at Harvard University, he established a department of political science at Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1928.
		Between 1938 and 1940, he collaborated with Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal on the monumental study of U.S. race relations published as An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944).
		The study is famous for presenting the theory that poverty breeds poverty.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/dec09.html (418 words)

	The University of Chicago Magazine: April 2003
		In one concisely written and tightly analyzed page, he lays out the parameters of the whole race problem in America without avoiding his own judgment as to ultimately virtuous arrangements.
		Every reader should be aware of (and, one hopes, familiar with) Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (New York, 1944).
		Last October President Randel issued a statement on the conduct of campus debate of contentious public issues.
	magazine.uchicago.edu /0304/issue/letters.html (921 words)

	Selected Bibliography
		Woodson, Carter G. The Mind of the Negro as Reflected in Letters Written during the Crisis, 1800-1860.
		The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861.
		A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/aap/aapbib.html (422 words)

	GUNNAR_MYRDAL
		The following quote appears at the bottom of page 168, immediately after his assertion that even "liberal" white America believes there is going to be less prejudice as the size of the fl population diminishes:
		I have never met a Negro who drew the conclusion from this that a decrease of the American Negro population would be advantageous.
		...almost every Negro, who is brought to think about the problem, wants the Negro population to be as large as possible.
	afgen.com /populat9.html (1542 words)

	MSN Encarta - Ralph Bunche
		He taught political science at Howard University in Washington, D.C., while completing his doctorate work at Harvard.
		From 1938 until 1940 he worked with the Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal on a classical study of African Americans that resulted in Myrdal's book An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944).
		Bunche served in the Office of Strategic Services from 1941 to 1944, during World War II, and joined the United States Department of State in 1944; in 1945 he became the first fl to head a departmental division in federal government, the Division of Dependent Area Affairs.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551706/Ralph_Bunche.html (439 words)

	Gunnar Myrdal - Biography
		In 1938, the Carnegie Corporation of New York commissioned him to direct a study of the American Negro problem.
		The material which he collected and interpreted was published in 1944 as An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.
		Having come home to Sweden in 1942, he was re-elected to the Swedish Senate, served as member of the Board of the Bank of Sweden, and was Chairman of the Post-War Planning Commission.
	nobelprize.org /economics/laureates/1974/myrdal-bio.html (647 words)

	Harnik's Happy House Of Books Century's 100 Best Nonfiction List
		Co-author White later revised it, and it remains the most compact and lucid handbook we have for matters of basic principles of composition, grammar, word usage and misusage, and writing style.
		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.
		By creating an ideal world--a world without knowledge of any other-- he idealizes a true liberal democracy.
	www.harnikbk.com /centnon3.htm (635 words)

	Myrdal - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Book)--Social aspects, Myrdal, Gunnar--Attitudes, Racism in literature--Analysis
		The prescience of Myrdal by Abigail Thernstrom, Stephan...Thernstrom An American Dilemma Gunnar Myrdal called the problem of race in his classic...re-issued with a new introduction by Myrdals daughter, Sissela Bok.
		Myrdal argued that democracy was the source of segregation...coercive power of the judiciary to end segregation.
	www.questia.com /search/Myrdal (1641 words)

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	Ralph Bunche \| The Scholar Activist \| An American Dilemma
		In 1937, Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish sociologist, was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation to do a study of race in the United States.
		The groundbreaking study was later published as An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy.
		Bunche contributed more than three thousand pages to the study based on field research conducted throughout the South.
	www.pbs.org /ralphbunche/activist_dilemma.html (212 words)

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		In a scorching scrutiny of African-Americans' wartime experience on the home front during WWII, MIT political science professor Kryder asserts that Franklin Roosevelt's administration did more to correct racial injustice than had any post-Civil War presidency.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521593387?v=glance (1028 words)

	AFRICAN AMERICAN EDUCATION SINCE AN AMERICAN DILEMMA
		Part of a special issue devoted to revisiting Gunnar Myrdal s An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944).
		For Myrdal, education was key to the elimination of racism and theimprovement of fls living conditions; but rises in income have not followed educational progress.
		The question remains, fifty years after Myrdal, whether America will change its historic subjugation of fls.
	www.sfsu.edu /~multsowk/title/11.htm (81 words)

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