AN AMERICAN DILEMMA: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944. 1st edition. Cloth. 1944 on the copyright page, with the code A-Y (January 1949). A Very Good book in a Good- dust jacket. 8vo., 1483 pp., bound in publishers green cloth with tan & black dust jacket, $6.00. Jacket is chipped and rubbed through at tips, edges and spine with overall tanning and an old tape repair to front. Previous owners name inside front cover, text edges dusty. Text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Very Good / Good-. Item #37252
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a 1944 study of race relations authored by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York. The foundation chose Myrdal because it thought that as a non-American, he could offer a more unbiased opinion. Myrdal's volume painstakingly detailed what he saw as obstacles to full participation in American society that American Blacks faced as of the 1940s. American political scientist, diplomat, and author, Ralph Bunche—who was the first African American to receive a Nobel Prize—served as Gunnar Myrdal's main researcher and writer at the start of the project in the fall of 1938.
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