Last week he published his complex, 1,483-page answer, called it An American Dilemma: the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (Harper; 2 vols.; $7.50). Economist-Senator Myrdal was chosen by ...

The idea that America’s moral failures on race are ultimately redeemed by its egalitarian ideals was popularized by Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 work, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern ...

The idea of personal and political equality has always been celebrated in American tradition, but it was at best only fitfully sustained in the pre-Civil War era. In practice, the individual ...

Ellison wrote that Gunnar Myrdal — author of “An American Dilemma,” a mid-century study of the condition of African Americans — “sees Negro culture and personality simply as the product ...

Seventy years after Gunnar Myrdal's monumental study of race relations in the United States was published, they remain the "American Dilemma." President Obama, in calling on people to accept the ...