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Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience

Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987

Walter A. Jackson

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 07/2014
Pages: 468
Subject: Biography and Autobiography, Social Science | University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469620602

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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.