An American Dilemma The Negro Problem ~ SIGNED by GUNNAR MYRDAL ~ 1944 Edition

Description: An American DilemmaThe Negro Problem and Modern Democracy by Gunnar Myrdal Signed copy of the groundbreakingstudy of race and politics in America,inscribed to the chief of UNESCO New York: Harper & Brothers, Publisher, 1946. lix, [1], 1483 pp. Ninth edition, the single volume edition first published in 1944. Signed by Gunnar Myrdal on front free endpaper, inscribed to French philosopher Rene Maheu, UNESCO Chief, Division of Free Flow of Information, later Director of the organization. A Near Fine copy lacking the dust jacket, a little shelf worn. Rare signed. This work, though somewhat obscure today, was the culminating achievement of Swedish economist and sociologist Gunnar Myrdal's life. It was commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study American history and society in hopes of providing answers to what was then commonly called "the negro problem," a stark divide in an openly segregated sociological, political, and economic system. The book was widely read and cited, including in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision of 1954 that desegregated public schools.

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