An American Dilemma - The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

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. The touchstone of this classic is the jarring discrepancy between the American creed of respect for the inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and opportunity for all and the pervasive violations of the dignity of blacks. The appendices, Valuation and Belief, are issued here as a separate work and are a gold mine of information, theory, and methodology. When it first appeared, Robert S. Lynd called An American Dilemma "the most penetrating and important on contemporary American civilization".

List of contents

VI: Justice; 24: Inequality of Justice; 25: The Police and Other Public Contacts; 26: Courts, Sentences and Prisons; 27: Violence and Intimidation; VII: Social Inequality; 28: The Basis of Social Inequality; 29: Patterns of Social Segregation and Discrimination; 30: Effects of Social Inequality; VIII: Social Stratification; 31: Caste and Class; 32: The Negro Class Structure; IX: Leadership and Concerted Action; 33: The American Pattern of Individual Leadership and Mass Passivity; 34: Accommodating Leadership; 35: The Negro Protest; 36: The Protest Motive and Negro Personality; 37: Compromise Leadership; 38: Negro Popular Theories a; 39: Negro Improvement and Protest Organizations; 40: The Negro Church; 41: The Negro School; 42: The Negro Press; X: The Negro Community; 43: Institutions; 44: Non-Institutional Aspects of the Negro Community; XI: An American Dilemma; 45: America Again at the Crossroads

About the author

Myrdal, Gunnar

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: Sissela Bok, Gunnar Myrdal, Gunnar/ Bok Myrdal, Myrdal Gunnar
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1996
• EAN: 9781560008576
• ISBN: 978-1-56000-857-6
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
• Series: Black and African-American Stu; Black & African-American Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; USA, Ethnic Studies, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Political structures: democracy, United States of America, USA, Human rights, civil rights, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General