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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781560008569
- Item Length
- 9.1in
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6in
- Genre
- Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Sociology / General, Human Rights, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 6.7in
- Item Weight
- 39.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 812 Pages
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In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, 'An American Dilemma', refers to the moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination. The touchstone of this classic is the jarring discrepancy between the American creed of respect for the inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and opportunity for all and the pervasive violations of the dignity of blacks. The appendices are a gold mine of information, theory, and methodology. Indeed, two of the appendices were issued as a separate work given their importance for systematic theory in social research. The new introduction by Sissela Bok offers a remarkably intimate yet rigorously objective appraisal of Myrdal--a social scientist who wanted to see himself as an analytic intellectual, yet had an unbending desire to bring about change. 'An American Dilemma' is testimonial to the man as well as the ideas he espoused. When it first appeared 'An American Dilemma' was called "the most penetrating and important book on contemporary American civilization" by Robert S. Lynd; "One of the best political commentaries on American life that has ever been written" in The American Political Science Review; and a book with "a novelty and a courage seldom found in American discussions either of our total society or of the part which the Negro plays in it" in 'The American Sociological Review'. It is a foundation work for all those concerned with the history and current status of race relations in the United States.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
ISBN-10
1560008563
ISBN-13
9781560008569
eBay Product ID (ePID)
813135
Product Key Features
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Sociology / General, Human Rights, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
812 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.1in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
6.7in
Item Weight
39.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
2 Vols.
Lc Classification Number
E185.6.M95 1996
Volume Number
1
Reviews
"One of the best political commentaries on American life that has ever been written." -The American Political Science Review "A novelty and a courage seldom found in American discussions either of our total society or of the part which the Negro plays in it." -The American Sociological Review
Publication Name
American Dilemma Vol. 1 : the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1
Table of Content
Volume I, Author's Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Postscript Twenty Years Later, by Arnold Rose, Foreword, by Frederick P. Keppel, Author's Preface to the First Edition, Acknowledgments, Introduction, PART I. THE APPROACH, PART II. RACE, PART III. POPULATION AND MIGRATION, PART IV. ECONOMICS, PART V. POLITICS, Volume II, PART VI. JUSTICE, PART VII. SOCIAL INEQUALITY, PART VIII. SOCIAL STRATIFICATION, PART IX. LEADERSHIP AND CONCERTED ACTION, PART X. THE NEGRO COMMUNITY, PART XI. AN AMERICAN DILEMMA, List of Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Other Material Referred to in This Book, Numbered Footnotes, Index
Copyright Date
1996
Target Audience
College Audience
Lccn
95-031355
Dewey Decimal
305.896/073
Series
Black and African-American Studies
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes
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