Daedalus articles from January 1995

Daedalus archives from January 1995

Preface to the issue "An American Dilemma Revisited."
January 1, 1995... IN CHOOSING TO COMMEMORATE the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma, Daedalus is doing more than simply celebrating the magisterial scholarly work of another age. It is asserting, simply but emphatically,...

Introduction.(An American Dilemma Revisited)
January 1, 1995... AN AMERICAN DILEMMA REVISITED was the title my father, Gunnar Myrdal, had given to his final, unfinished book. His aim was to reexamine all that had gone into writing An American Dilemma, to reevaluate its conclusions in the light of how race...

The political sociology of the African American situation: Gunnar Myrdal's era and today.(An American Dilemma Revisited)
January 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION GUNNAR MYRDAL'S AN AMERICAN DILEMMA is a monumental achievement in social scientific reporting on race relations. It has outlasted severe criticisms which charged that it embodied a white liberal ideology and denigrated African...

Shifting challenges: fifty years of economic change toward black-white earnings equality.(An American Dilemma Revisited)
January 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION WHEN GUNNAR MYRDAL published An American Dilemma in 1944 three of every four Negroes in the United States lived in the South where the reigning ideology, mirrored to a substantial degree in the nation at large, was white...

African American education since 'An American Dilemma.'(An American Dilemma Revisited)
January 1, 1995... PUBLISHED IN 1944, AMIS THE MASSIVE destruction and racial genocide of World War II, Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma stood not only as a challenge to America's democratic principles, but as a firm testament to their promise. Myrdal thought of...

The churches and social change: accommodation, moderation, or protest. (includes excerpt from 'An American Dilemma')(An American Dilemma Revisited)
January 1, 1995... MANY SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS of American society have argued that, with the exception of the family, the Black churches are incontestably the most important social institutions within the Black community. Gunnar Myrdal, writing in the 1940s, stated...

Courts, sentences, and prisons. (includes excerpt from 'An American Dilemma')(An American Dilemma Revisited)
January 1, 1995... INTRODUCTION GUNNAR MYRDAL CONCLUDED in An American Dilemma that "the whole judicial system of courts, sentences and prisons in the South is overripe for fundamental reforms."(1) Relying primarily on anecdotal accounts of differential...

The undesirables, America's underclass in the managerial age: beyond the Myrdal theory of racial inequality. (includes excerpt from 'An American Dilemma')(An American Dilemma Revisited)
January 1, 1995... IN 1944, GUNNAR MYRDAL OPENED chapter 17 of An American Dilemma, "The Mechanics of Economic Discrimination as a Practical Problem," with the following decidedly pessimistic commentary: The picture of the economic situation of the Negro people...

Gender and social inequality: the prevailing significance of race.(An American Dilemma Revisited)
January 1, 1995... In every society there are at least two groups of people, besides the Negroes, who are characterized by high social visibility expressed in physical appearance, dress, and patterns of behavior, and who have been "suppressed." We refer to women...

The dynamic racial composition of the United States.(An American Dilemma Revisited)
January 1, 1995... A RACIALLY DIVIDED SOCIETY IN REVISITING GUNNAR MYRDAL'S An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, it is appropriate to reconsider the underlying theoretical orientation of that work. Myrdal and his collaborators reduced the...

Myrdal revisited: the Negro in business. (Gunnar Myrdal)(An American Dilemma Revisited)
January 1, 1995... IN THE YEARS SINCE GUNNAR MYRDAL published An American Dilemma, there have been many changes in the area of race relations. A massive Civil Rights movement gave people of African descent the basic constitutional rights that other Americans have...