Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations: The Use and Abuse of an American Dilemma, 1944-1969 PDF
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Gunnar Myrdal and Black-white Relations : title: The Use and Abuse of An American Dilemma, 1944-1969 author: Southern, David W. publisher: Louisiana State University Press isbn10 | asin: 0807118842 print isbn13: 9780807118849 ebook isbn13: 9780585292359 language: English Myrdal, Gunnar,--1898- --American subject dilemma, African Americans. publication date: 1987 lcc: E185.6.M953S68 1987eb ddc: 305.8/96073 Myrdal, Gunnar,--1898- --American subject: dilemma, African Americans. Page iii Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations The Use and Abuse of An American Dilemma, 19441969 David W. Southern Page iv Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. Copyright © 1987 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designer: Laura Roubique Typeface: Times Roman Typesetter: G&S Typesetters, Inc. Chapters VI and VII herein appeared previously, in slightly different form, as "An American Dilemma: Gunnar Myrdal and the Civil Rights Cases, 19441954," in Journal of the History of Sociology, III (Spring, 1981) and "An American Dilemma Revisited: Myrdalism and White Southern Liberals," in South Atlantic Quarterly, LXXIII (Spring, 1976), respectively. The author gratefully acknowledges Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., for granting permission to reprint "Dream Deferred," from The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times, by Langston Hughes, copyright © 1967 by Arna Bontemps; and Harper and Row for granting permission to quote from An American Dilemma, by Gunnar Myrdal, copyright 1944, © 1962. Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Southern. David W. Gunnar Myrdal and Black-white relations. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898 American dilemma. 2. Afro-Americans. I. Title. EI85.6.M953S68 1987 305.8'96073 86-20040 ISBN 0-8071-1302-6 (cloth). ISBN 0-8071-1884-2 (paper). Louisiana Paperback Edition, 1994 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 96 95 94 5 4 3 2 1 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Page v For my parents Page vii Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Langston Hughes Page ix Contents Preface xiii Acknowledgments xvii I 1 A Fresh Mind for an Old Problem II 29 The Ordeal of Collaboration, 19391943 III 49 The Context and Content of a Classic IV 71 First Reactions to the Myrdal Report V 101 The Spreading of Myrdalian Thought: The Truman Years VI 127 The Dilemma in Court: Myrdal and the Civil Rights Cases, 19441954 VII 155 The White South and the Far Right Respond to Myrdal VIII 187 Myrdal, Academia, and the Race Problem, 19451965 IX 225 The Dilemma and the Civil Rights Movement, 19541965 X 261 New Dilemmas, 19651969 XI 293 The Dilemma and Black-White Relations After Forty Years Plus: Some Reflections Epilogue: Myrdal to Reexamine the American Dilemma 307 Selected Bibliography 311 Index 331 Page xi Illustrations Following page150 Gunnar Myrdal in 1938 Gunnar and Alva Myrdal in 1970 Cartoon depicting the segregationist view of the Brown decision Cartoon showing the white supremacist view of the subversive evidence gleaned from An American Dilemma
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