... of the book. The introduction establishes the link between these racial experiments in temporary blackness and the politics of American liberalism by considering Gunnar Myrdal’s influential sociological tome, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy. In it, Myrdal concluded...

...Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma as a defining text on US race relations. Here, Maribel Morey confirms with historical evidence what many critics of the book have suspected: An American Dilemma...

...Focusing on one of the most significant studies of race in US history—Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma (1944)—White Philanthropy argues that An American Dilemma should be remembered as a project with great dialogue and intent between its funder...

...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...

...Tracing Gunnar Myrdal throughout his years as director of Carnegie Corporation’s study of Black Americans from 1938 to 1942, this chapter details how Myrdal built on Carnegie Corporation President Frederick P. Keppel’s networks in the United States and obtained assistance from key figures...