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The Use and Abuse of An American Dilemma, 19441969
David W. Southern
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Copyright 1987 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
Designer: Laura Roubique Typeface: Times Roman Typesetter: G&S Typesetters, Inc.
Chapters VI and VII herein appeared previously, in slightly different form, as "An American Dilemma: Gunnar Myrdal and the Civil Rights Cases, 19441954," in Journal of the History of Sociology, III (Spring, 1981) and "An American Dilemma Revisited: Myrdalism and White Southern Liberals," in South Atlantic Quarterly, LXXIII (Spring, 1976), respectively.
The author gratefully acknowledges Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., for granting permission to reprint "Dream Deferred," from The Panther and the Lash: Poems of Our Times, by Langston Hughes, copyright 1967 by Arna Bontemps; and Harper and Row for granting permission to quote from An American Dilemma, by Gunnar Myrdal, copyright 1944, 1962.
Published with the assistance of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Southern. David W. Gunnar Myrdal and Black-white relations. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898 American dilemma. 2. Afro-Americans. I. Title. EI85.6.M953S68 1987 305.8'96073 86-20040 ISBN 0-8071-1302-6 (cloth). ISBN 0-8071-1884-2 (paper).
Louisiana Paperback Edition, 1994
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The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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For my parents
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Dream Deferred
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode? Langston Hughes
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Contents
Preface
xiii
Acknowledgments
xvii
I A Fresh Mind for an Old Problem
1
II The Ordeal of Collaboration, 19391943
29
III The Context and Content of a Classic
49
IV First Reactions to the Myrdal Report
71
V The Spreading of Myrdalian Thought: The Truman Years
101
VI The Dilemma in Court: Myrdal and the Civil Rights Cases, 19441954
127
VII The White South and the Far Right Respond to Myrdal
155
VIII Myrdal, Academia, and the Race Problem, 19451965
187
IX The Dilemma and the Civil Rights Movement, 19541965
225
X New Dilemmas, 19651969
261
XI The Dilemma and Black-White Relations After Forty Years Plus: Some Reflections
293
Epilogue: Myrdal to Reexamine the American Dilemma
307
Selected Bibliography
311
Index
331
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Illustrations
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150
Gunnar Myrdal in 1938
Gunnar and Alva Myrdal in 1970
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