An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

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book non-fiction book sociological study

An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy is a landmark 1944 sociological study by Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal that examined racial segregation and discrimination in the United States and profoundly influenced postwar civil rights debates and Supreme Court decisions.

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Label	Occurrences
An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy canonical	2
The American Negro Problem (Carnegie-Myrdal study materials)	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ sociological study ⓘ
argues	racial discrimination contradicts the American Creed of equality and liberty ⓘ white Americans experience moral conflict between ideals and racial practices ⓘ
author	Gunnar Myrdal ⓘ
awarded	Anisfield-Wolf Book Award ⓘ
centralConcept	The American Creed ⓘ surface form: American Creed
centralTheme	tension between American democratic ideals and racial inequality ⓘ
commissionedBy	Carnegie Corporation of New York ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
focusesOn	economic conditions of African Americans ⓘ legal framework of Jim Crow laws ⓘ political disenfranchisement of African Americans ⓘ social customs of segregation ⓘ
genre	American studies ⓘ political science ⓘ sociology ⓘ
historicalContext	Jim Crow laws ⓘ surface form: Jim Crow era in the United States World War II ⓘ
impact	provided empirical evidence against segregation ⓘ shaped academic discourse on race in the United States ⓘ used as reference in legal briefs in civil rights cases ⓘ
includes	comparative analysis of race relations ⓘ
influenced	Brown v. Board of Education ⓘ U.S. Supreme Court civil rights jurisprudence ⓘ postwar civil rights movement in the United States ⓘ
influencedBy	New Deal era Supreme Court jurisprudence ⓘ surface form: New Deal era social science
language	English ⓘ
methodology	empirical social research ⓘ interviews ⓘ statistical analysis ⓘ
notableFor	comprehensive documentation of conditions of African Americans ⓘ integration of normative and empirical analysis of race ⓘ
pages	over 1,400 ⓘ
publicationPlace	New York City ⓘ
publicationYear	1944 ⓘ
publisher	Harper & Brothers ⓘ
relatedWork	An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: The American Negro Problem (Carnegie-Myrdal study materials)
subject	Black Americans ⓘ surface form: African Americans American democracy ⓘ civil rights in the United States ⓘ race relations in the United States ⓘ racial discrimination in the United States ⓘ racial segregation in the United States ⓘ
timePeriodCovered	early 20th century United States ⓘ

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Gunnar Myrdal → notableWork → An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy ⓘ

An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy → relatedWork → An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: The American Negro Problem (Carnegie-Myrdal study materials)

Asian Drama: An Inquiry into the Poverty of Nations → relatedWork → An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy ⓘ