Word: myrdal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Dillemma," a massive treatise on the Negro problem in the United States, by Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish sociologist, will be the focus of Aptheker's remarks...
Today racial intermarriage is legal in 18 states, and Negro passing is becoming easier. But the No. 1 authority on U.S. Negroes, Sweden's Gunnar Myrdal, thinks that amalgamation of U.S. whites and Negroes is highly unlikely, because of: 1) a decline in the number of mulatto bastards, who were the products of much blood-mixing in the 19th Century; 2) Negro inbreeding, which will make white-blooded Negroes darker and level the race at a middling brown...
Last year's lecturer was Douglas B. Copeland, Australian economist. Other appointments to the lectureship went to Rt. Hon. James Bryce, President Charles W. Eliot, Walter Lippman, Lewis W. Douglas, Heinrich Bruening, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Gunnar Myrdal, Robert Moses, and Charles E. Merriam. The lectures are usually published in book form at a later date...
Merit Unrewarded. Not all good books of 1944 won the public they deserved. Friedrich A. Hayek's brilliant exposition of the perils of collectivism, The Road to Serfdom, Hans Kohn's timely historical study, Idea of Nationalism, and Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal's profound analysis of the U.S. Negro problem, An American Dilemma, won high critical praise but comparatively few readers. And much of the year's most intelligent poetry suffered the usual neglect: W. H. Auden's For the Time Being, E. E. Cummings' I X I, Robert Fitzgerald's A Wreath...
...errs, Dr. Myrdal thinks, in dashing off a brand-new law every time it has a twinge of conscience. The nation's laws are too hastily written, and then their effect is lost or diluted by sloppy or inadequate administration. As a result, a highly moral country paradoxically looks on all law & order with suspicion and mild contempt...