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An African Survey: A Study of Problems Arising in Africa South of the Sahara (1938)
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944)
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Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Frederick Keppel
General Education Board
Gunnar and Alva Reimer Myrdal
History of the social sciences in the U.S.
History of U.S. philanthropy
J.H. Oldham
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial
Malcolm Hailey
Phelps Stokes Fund
Rockefeller organizations: Rockefeller Foundation
Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House)
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
South Africa
The Poor White Problem in South Africa (1932)
Thomas Jesse Jones
Tuskegee Institute
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- ISBN 9781469664736
- Weight: 669g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 09 Nov 2021
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma as a defining text on U.S. race relations. Here, Maribel Morey confirms with historical evidence what many critics of the book have suspected: An American Dilemma was not commissioned, funded, or written with the goal of challenging white supremacy. Instead, Morey reveals it was commissioned by Carnegie Corporation president Frederick Keppel, and researched and written by Myrdal, with the intent of solidifying white rule over Black people in the United States.
Morey details the complex global origins of An American Dilemma, illustrating its links to Carnegie Corporation's funding of social science research meant to help white policymakers in the Anglo-American world address perceived problems in their governance of Black people. Morey also unpacks the text itself, arguing that Myrdal ultimately complemented his funder's intentions for the project by keeping white Americans as his principal audience and guiding them towards a national policy program on Black Americans that would keep intact white domination. Because for Myrdal and Carnegie Corporation alike, international order rested on white Anglo-Americans' continued ability to dominate effectively.
Morey details the complex global origins of An American Dilemma, illustrating its links to Carnegie Corporation's funding of social science research meant to help white policymakers in the Anglo-American world address perceived problems in their governance of Black people. Morey also unpacks the text itself, arguing that Myrdal ultimately complemented his funder's intentions for the project by keeping white Americans as his principal audience and guiding them towards a national policy program on Black Americans that would keep intact white domination. Because for Myrdal and Carnegie Corporation alike, international order rested on white Anglo-Americans' continued ability to dominate effectively.
Maribel Morey is founding executive director of the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences.
