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1. Gunnar Myrdal and An African Survey 1. Gunnar Myrdal and An African Survey
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2. Myrdal Flatters and Focuses on White Americans 2. Myrdal Flatters and Focuses on White Americans
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3. White Domination and Black Subjection in Myrdal’s Definition of Racial Equality 3. White Domination and Black Subjection in Myrdal’s Definition of Racial Equality
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4. The Main White U.S. Audiences for An American Dilemma 4. The Main White U.S. Audiences for An American Dilemma
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5. Keppel’s Concerns about Myrdal’s Centering of White Northerners and New Dealers at the Expense of the White South 5. Keppel’s Concerns about Myrdal’s Centering of White Northerners and New Dealers at the Expense of the White South
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6. Keppel Channels His Lingering Anxiety in An American Dilemma’s Foreword 6. Keppel Channels His Lingering Anxiety in An American Dilemma’s Foreword
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9 In Sync with Carnegie Corporation: Gunnar Myrdal Offers Blueprints for a New Dynamic Equilibrium in White Anglo-American Domination
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Published:November 2021
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Abstract
Focusing on the writing stage of Carnegie Corporation’s study on Black Americans, this chapter illustrates how Carnegie Corporation President Frederick P. Keppel read and commented on drafts of Gunnar Myrdal’s final report. The chapter argues that An American Dilemma reflected Myrdal’s intellectual influences and observations in 1930s and 1940s Sweden and the US, and equally so, largely met—and in some ways, exceeded—Keppel’s expectations for a national policy program that would help stabilize white domination in the US. This is because, in An American Dilemma, Myrdal provided a means for white Anglo-Americans to fortify their supremacy within the US, as Keppel expected, and also beyond the US, a point which Keppel long had valued. In fact, as this chapter underscores, the biggest difference of opinion between Keppel and Myrdal during the writing stage of the study rested on their varying perspectives on the significance of white southerners for achieving Myrdal’s national policy plan on Black Americans. While Keppel thought that white southerners were critical for such a national effort, Myrdal discounted their importance by pointing to the political and economic power of white northerners and the New Deal federal government, as well as to intellectual divides among white southerners.
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