1944 An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

The scarce first edition of Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 study of race relations in America.

This work was the result of a 1938 commission from the Carnegie Corporation to write about the subject matter, and the work painstakingly detailed what Myrdal saw as obstacles to full participation in American society that black Americans faced the 1940s.

This work was enormously influential in how racial issues were viewed in the United States, and it was cited in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.

The book was generally positive in its outlook on the future of race relations in America, taking the view that democracy would triumph over racism. In many ways it is viewed to have laid the groundwork for future policies of racial integration.