Black and African-American Studies: American Dilemma, the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy

Gunnar Myrdal

Transaction Publishers, 1995 - 811 pages

Contents

• LIST OF TABLES: xvii
• Introduction to the Transaction Fiftieth Anniversary Edition: xxi
• Authors Preface to the Twentieth Anniversary Edition: xxxiii
• Postscript Twenty Years Later by Arnold Rose: xxxvii
• Foreword by Frederick P Keppel: lv
• Authors Preface to the First Edition: lix
• A Parallel to the Negro Problem 1073: lxv
• Acknowledgments: lxxi
• Introduction: lxxvii
• Valuations and Beliefs: lxxix
• A White Mans Problem: lxxxiii
• Not an Isolated Problem: lxxxiv
• Institutions: lxxxv
• Some Further Notes on the Scope and Direction of This Study: lxxxvii
• A Warning to the Reader: xc
• THE APPROACH: 1
• Nationalist Movements: 2
• American Ideals and the American Conscience: 3
• The Spirit of Niagara and Harpers Ferry: 4
• American Nationalism: 5
• Some Historical Reflections: 6
• The Garvey Movement: 7
• The Roots of the American Creed in the Philosophy of Enlightenment: 8
• The Roots in Christianity: 9
• The Great Depression and the Second World War 736: 10
• The Commission on Interracial Cooperation: 11
• The Roots in English Law 7 American Conservatism: 12
• The American Conception of Law and Order: 13
• Natural Law and American Puritanism: 15
• The Faltering Judicial Order: 17
• NonInstitutional Aspects of the Negro Community 956: 18
• Intellectual Defeatism: 19
• LipService: 21
• Value Premises in This Study: 23
• Encountering the Negro Problem: 26
• To the Negroes Themselves: 27
• Explaining the Problem Away: 30
• Explorations in Escape: 32
• The Etiquette of Discussion: 36
• The Convenience of Ignorance: 40
• Negro and White Voices: 42
• The North and the South: 44
• Facets of the Negro Problem 1 American Minority Problems: 50
• The AntiAmalgamation Doctrine: 53
• The White Mans Theory of Color Caste: 57
• AN AMERICAN DILEMMA: 58
• The Rank Order of Discriminations: 60
• Relationships between Lower Class Groups: 67
• The Manifoldness and the Unity of the Negro Problem: 73
• The Theory of the Vicious Circle: 75
• A Theory of Democracy: 78
• Racial Beliefs PART II RACE: 81
• Biology and Moral Equalitarianism: 83
• The Ideological Clash in America: 84
• The Ideological Compromise: 88
• Reflections in Science: 89
• The Position of the Negro Writers: 93
• The Negro School 1 Negro Education as Concerted Action 2 Education in American Thought and Life 3 The Development of Negro Education in th...: 96
• The Racial Beliefs of the Unsophisticated: 97
• Beliefs with Purpose: 101
• Specific Rationalization Needs: 106
• Rectifying Beliefs: 108
• The Study of Beliefs: 110
• Race and Ancestry 1 The American Definition of Negro: 113
• African Ancestry: 116
• The Protest Motive and Negro Personality 757: 118
• Changes in Physical Appearance: 120
• Early Miscegenation: 123
• AnteBellum Miscegenation: 125
• Miscegenation in Recent Times: 127
• Passing: 129
• Social and Biological Selection: 130
• Present and Future Genetic Composition Trends: 132
• Racial Characteristics 1 Physical Traits: 137
• Chapter 7: 140
• List of Books Pamphlets Periodicals and Other Material: 144
• Psychic Traits 50 83 113 137 2 Biological Susceptibility to Disease 4 Frontiers of Constructive Research: 149
• PART III: 155
• The Growth of the Negro Population: 157
• Births and Deaths: 159
• Ends and Means of Population Policy: 167
• Controlling the Death Rate: 171
• The Case for Controlling the Negro Birth Rate: 175
• Birth Control Facilities for Negroes: 178
• Migration 1 Overview: 182
• A Closer View: 185
• The Great Migration to the Urban North: 191
• Characteristics of the Negro Press: 194
• Continued Northward Migration: 196
• The Future of Negro Migration 182: 197
• ECONOMICS: 203
• Economic Inequality 205 1 Negro Poverty: 205
• The Vicious Circle: 207
• The Value Premises: 209
• The Controls of the Negro Press 5 Outlook: 212
• The Conflict of Valuations: 215
• Budget Items: 217
• The Tradition of Slavery 1 Economic Exploitation: 220
• Slavery and Caste: 221
• The Land Problem: 224
• The Tenancy Problem: 227
• The Southern Plantation Economy and the Negro Farmer 1 Southern Agriculture as a Problem: 230
• Overpopulation and Soil Erosion: 231
• Tenancy Credit and Cotton: 232
• The Boll Weevil: 234
• Main Agricultural Classes: 235
• The Negro Landowner: 237
• Historical Reasons for the Relative Lack of Negro Farm Owners: 240
• Tenants and Wage Laborers: 242
• Chapter 12: 243
• The Plantation Tenant: 245
• Trends and Policies 1 Agricultural Trends during the Thirties: 251
• The Disappearing Sharecropper: 253
• The Role of the A A A in Regard to Cotton: 255
• A A A and the Negro: 256
• The Local Administration of the A A: 258
• Mechanization: 259
• Labor Organizations: 261
• The Dilemma of Agricultural Policy: 264
• Economic Evaluation of the A A: 265
• Social Evaluation of the A A: 267
• Constructive Measures: 270
• Farm Security Programs: 273
• Seeking Jobs Outside Agriculture I Perspective on the Urbanization of the Negro People 2 In the South: 279
• A Closer View: 284
• Southern Trends during the Thirties 5 In the North: 288
• A Closer View on Northern Trends: 293
• The Employment Hazards of Unskilled Work: 296
• The Size of the Negro Labor Force and Negro Employment: 297
• Negro and White Unemployment: 301
• The Negro in Business the Professions Public Service and Other White Collar Occupations I Overview 2 The Negro in Business: 304
• Negro Finance: 314
• The Negro Teacher: 318
• The Negro Minister: 321
• The Negro in Medical Professions: 322
• Other Negro Professionals: 325
• Negro Officials and White Collar Workers in Public Service: 327
• Negro Professionals of the Stage Screen and Orchestra: 329
• Note on Shady Occupations: 330
• The Negro in the Public Economy 1 The Public Budget: 333
• Discrimination in Public Service: 334
• Education: 337
• Public Health: 344
• Recreational Facilities: 346
• Public Housing Policies: 350
• Social Security and Public Assistance: 353
• Specialized Social Welfare Programs during the Period After 1935: 356
• The Social Security Program: 357
• Assistance to Special Groups: 358
• Work Relief: 360
• Assistance to Youth: 361
• General Relief and Assistance in Kind: 362
• 220: 365
• Income and Family Size: 366
• The Family Budget: 367
• Food Consumption: 374
• Housing Conditions: 377
• The Mechanics of Economic Discrimination as a Practical Problem 1 The Practical Problem: 380
• The Ignorance and Lack of Concern of Northern Whites: 383
• Migration Policy: 386
• The Regular Industrial Labor Market in the North: 388
• The Problem of Vocational Training: 390
• The SelfPerpetuating Color: 391
• A Position of Indifferent Equilibrium: 392
• In the South: 395
• PreWar Labor Market Controls and Their Conse quences for the Negro 1 The Wages and Hours Law and the Dilemma of the Marginal Worker: 397
• Other Economic Policies: 399
• Labor Unions and the Negro: 401
• A Weak Movement Getting Strong Powers: 403
• The War Boomand Thereafter 1 The Negro Wage Earner and the War Boom: 409
• A Closer View: 411
• Government Policy in Regard to the Negro in War Production: 414
• The Negro in the Armed Forces: 419
• And Afterwards? 380: 423
• POLITICS: 427
• Underlying Factors 429 1 The Negro in American Politics and as a Political Issue: 429
• The Wave of Democracy and the Need for Bureaucracy: 432
• The North and the South: 437
• The Southern Defense Ideology: 441
• The Reconstruction Amendments: 445
• Memories of Reconstruction: 446
• The Tradition of Illegality: 448
• Southern Conservatism and Liberalism 1 The Solid South 2 Southern Conservatism: 452
• Is the South Fascist?: 458
• The Changing South: 462
• Southern Liberalism: 466
• Political Practices Today: 474
• The Negro Vote in the South: 486
• What the Negro Gets Out of Politics: 497
• Trends and Possibilities: 505
• Volume II: 1181
• A Mental Reservation: 1185
• 230: 1216
• The Struggle Against Defeatism 3 The Struggle for Balance 4 Negro Sensitiveness 5 Negro Aggression 6 Upper Class Reactions: 1234
• Index Numbers for Gross Cash Income from: 1244
• 452: 1262
• Compromise Leadership 1 The Daily Compromise: 1265
• 251: 1266
• A Methodological Note on Valuations and Beliefs 1027: 1268
• Chapter 13: 1270
• A Methodological Note on Facts and Valuations: 1314
• Violence and Intimidation: 1325
• Accommodating Leadership: 1441
• 810: 1443
• A Methodological Note on the Principle of Cumu: 1444
• The Vulnerability of the Negro Leader 3 Impersonal Motives 4 The Protest Motive 5 The Double Role 6 Negro Leadership Techniques: 1445
• 279: 1447
• 709: 1449
• 720: 1461
• 858: 1465
• 879: 1466
• 304: 1469
• 333: 1470
• 364: 1477

Bibliographic information

• Title: Black and African-American Studies: American Dilemma, the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy; Black and African-American studies
• Author: Gunnar Myrdal
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 1995
• ISBN: 141281510X, 9781412815109
• Length: 811 pages