Gunnar Myrdal and America's conscience : social engineering and racial liberalism, 1938-1987

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Author:

Jackson, Walter A.

ISBN:

9780807819111

Personal Author:

Jackson, Walter A.

Publication Information:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1990.

Physical Description:

xxi, 447 p. : ports. ; 25 cm.

Series:

The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

Series Title:

The Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

Personal Subject:

Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898- American dilemma.

Subject Term:

Race discrimination -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

United States -- Social conditions -- 1933-1945.

United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-

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Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma (1944) influenced the attitudes of a generation of Americans on the race issue and established Myrdal as a major critic of American politics and culture. Walter Jackson explores how the Swedish Social Democratic scholar, policymaker, and activist came to shape a consensus on one of America's most explosive public issues.

Preface	p. xi
Introduction: The Race Issue in the 1930s	p. 1
1 Finding a Tocqueville	p. 10
Frederick Keppel and the Carnegie Corporation	p. 11
Newton Baker's Proposal	p. 16
Foundations and Black Americans	p. 22
"Exceptional Men," Colonial Administrators, and Scandinavians	p. 26
2 Social Engineering and Prophylactic Reform	p. 36
The Making of an Intellectual Aristocrat	p. 40
Marriage to Alva and Apprenticeship to Cassel	p. 50
First Visit to America, 1929-1930	p. 59
Social Democratic Reform	p. 68
Sweden's "Population Crisis"	p. 75
3 Encountering the "Negro Problem"	p. 88
Initial Impressions	p. 89
An Absence of Consensus	p. 94
A Royal Commission for the "Negro Problem"	p. 106
On the Road	p. 117
Myrdal and Bunche	p. 121
4 My War Work	p. 135
"The World's Problem in Miniature"	p. 137
Contact with America	p. 147
Conflicts of Conscience	p. 159
"The Limits of Optimism"	p. 164
Democratic Internationalism or American Imperialism?	p. 173
Myrdal and the July 20, 1944, Plot to Kill Hitler	p. 181
5 An American Dilemma: The Text	p. 186
The American Creed and Institutional Change	p. 188
Race, Population, and Migration	p. 198
Economics	p. 204
Politics, Justice, and Social Equality	p. 212
Negro Politics, Culture, and Community	p. 219
Racial Justice in a Global Context	p. 228
6 The Study to End All Studies	p. 231
The Race Issue in 1944	p. 232
Acclaim in the National Press	p. 241
Afro-American and White Southern Reactions	p. 245
The Reception in Scholarly Journals	p. 252
The Divided Left	p. 257
The Emerging Orthodoxy and Neglected Alternatives	p. 261
7 The Rise and Fall of a Liberal Orthodoxy	p. 272
The Growing Legitimacy of Civil Rights	p. 273
Intercultural Education, Prejudice, and Damage	p. 279
Racial Liberalism from Brown to the Voting Rights Act	p. 293
Liberalism in Crisis	p. 302
8 Dreamer, Planner, and Fighter	p. 312
An American Dilemma in Perspective	p. 312
The Cold War and McCarthyism	p. 320
The Challenge of Third World Poverty	p. 332
America's Critic and Friend	p. 344
The Dilemma Revisited	p. 352
The Last Years	p. 359
Legacy	p. 368
Notes	p. 373
Essay on Sources	p. 429
Index	p. 435

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