...David W. Southern Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 An American Dilemma Revisited: Myrdalism and White Southern Liberals David W. Southern By 1944 the racial ramifications of the Second World War had hit the South hard. In 1943 Virginius Dabney, the liberal editor of the Richmond...

... and Modern Democracy, that mammoth study which appeared in 1944 by the Swedish social econ­ omist Gunnar Myrdal, are stored in the celebrated Schomburg Col­ lection of the New York Public Library. To date ten of these manuscripts have been published, including the one on politics. All of them are currently...

... South the bitterness and resentment, the frustration and folly, and the few strands of hope still visible. Book Reviews 367 However, Profile in Black and White will not become a classic study of the South. It lacks the depth of perception of Key s Southern Politics, Myrdal s An American Dilemma, or Cash...

... Myrdal developed models for more collective forms of social reproduction, while simultaneously espousing eugenic theories about what good reproduction looked like one that sought to ensure that racialized or disabled people and people with mental illnesses did not have children. Forced sterilizations...

.... The Social Democratic party was represented on the committee by Dr. Wigforss and Mr. Karl Fredriksson; the Swedish Trade Union Federation, by Messrs. August Lindberg, Gunnar Andersson, John Grewin, and Oscar Westerlund; the Social Democratic Women s Association, by Mrs. Alva Myrdal; and the Social Democratic...

... reveal, as Gunnar Myrdal has suggested, that Southern memories of black domination are cherished symbols of regional allegiance. The myth serves a vital defensive function for the white Southerner, Myrdal claims, by helping him justify the fraud and violence traditionally used to keep Negroes away...

..., an organization of clergymen, could become what Bayard Rustin called the dynamic center of the civil rights move­ ment was all the more remarkable because the black church had been the despair of generations of activists. Although it enjoyed unequalled prestige and, in Gunnar Myrdal s words, had the Negro...

... not eschew the novel form and blaze a trail as Tocqueville did. If he had, he would be, at the least, a most valuable ante-bellum Myrdal. DUKE UNIVERSITY ROBERT F. DURDEN A Yankee s Odyssey: The Life of Joel Barlow. By James Woodress. New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1958. Pp. 347. $5.95. James Woodress...

... from the Union, but today Texas, if not placed in a category of its own, is usually designated a Southwestern state. Howard Odum considered the South to be eleven states, but he excluded Texas and included Kentucky.8 Gunnar Myrdal, pre­ occupied with the racial problem, defined it as nine states.10...

... that Beaumont did not eschew the novel form and blaze a trail as Tocqueville did. If he had, he would be, at the least, a most valuable ante-bellum Myrdal. DUKE UNIVERSITY ROBERT F. DURDEN A Yankee s Odyssey: The Life of Joel Barlow. By James Woodress. New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1958. Pp. 347. $5.95. James...

...: Report to the President of the European Commission . ec.europa.eu/internal_market/strategy/docs/monti_report_final_10_05_2010_en.pdf . Myrdal Gunnar . 1968 . “ Twenty Years of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe .” International Organization 22 , no. 3 : 617 – 28...

..., ameliorate suffering at home, and eradicate racism in the South. In time her husband adopted this same faith with the fervor of the newly converted. Added to her personal persuasiveness, Mrs. Waring used two newly published books to convince her husband of the errors of his ways: Gunnar Myrdal s An American...

... desegregation may be more dramatic and newsworthy, but in the long run the greater participation of Negroes in politics probably will prove to be the most fundamental change of all. A problem of both practical and theoretical significance is raised by Professor Lewis M. Killian in Myrdal, Sumner...

... Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights . Tucson : University of Arizona Press . Muñoz José Esteban . 1999 . Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics . Cultural Studies of the Americas 2 . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Myrdal...

... that means, and that social equality means intermarriage with whites. A little common sense would indicate otherwise. A documented study, such as Gunnar Myrdal s An American Dilemma, indicates otherwise. According to that study, the desires of the American Negro arrange themselves in an inverse order...

... with the simplistic, which made him obviously uncomfortable. He devoted his entire preface, Preview to Understanding, to softening the impact of such an assumption of homogeneity, saying, for example, if it can be said there are many Souths, the fact remains that there is also one South. When Gunnar Myrdal set...

... of homogeneity, saying, for example, if it can be said there are many Souths, the fact remains that there is also one South. When Gunnar Myrdal set out to define his regional terms in the enormously influential An American Dilemma (1944) and encountered trouble in fastening upon a precise enough definition...

... of its findings. Black( , 135) Swedish academic Gunnar Myrdal wrote the second study, The American Dilemma. Unlike the first study, which relied on the politics of comparison to signal the “family of resemblances between U.S. and European tradi- tions of subordinating and civilizing darkies...

... of the Puritan inheritance, and democ­ racy integral to the national dream. Indeed, as Gunnar Myrdal wrote, ours is the first large-scale society to have built innovation into the culture, so that it was natural for the ordinary American, when he sees something wrong, to feel not only that there should...

... at Gunnar Myrdal s gigantic study of the Negro in American society. On the stage, the sugar-coating that sweetens the seriousness must be heavier, must enter the system more quickly and more completely; Rodgers s music and Hammerstein s underlying purity and optimism provide that coating effectively...