Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience

Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987

• Author(s): Walter A. Jackson,
• Publisher: UNC Press Books
• Pages: 472
• ISBN_10: 0807844608
  ISBN_13: 9780807844601
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Reference , Social Science / Minority Studies , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... 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