An American Dilemma - The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1

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.

List of contents

Volume I, Author’s Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Postscript Twenty Years Later, by Arnold Rose, Foreword, by Frederick P. Keppel, Author’s Preface to the First Edition, Acknowledgments, Introduction, PART I. THE APPROACH, PART II. RACE, PART III. POPULATION AND MIGRATION, PART IV. ECONOMICS, PART V. POLITICS, Volume II, PART VI. JUSTICE, PART VII. SOCIAL INEQUALITY, PART VIII. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION, PART IX. LEADERSHIP AND CONCERTED ACTION, PART X. THE NEGRO COMMUNITY, PART XI. AN AMERICAN DILEMMA, List of Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Other Material Referred to in This Book, Numbered Footnotes, Index

About the author

Gunnar Myrdal

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Myrdal Gimar, Gunnar Myrdal, Myrdal Gunnar, Bok Sissela
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781138518834
• ISBN: 978-1-138-51883-4
• No. of pages: 812
• Weight: 453 g
• Series: Black & African-American Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General