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The “Myrdal Report” Revisited - Walter A. Jackson. Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xxi, 447. $34.95).

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Walter A. Jackson. Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1990. Pp. xxi, 447. $34.95).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 October 2011

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Copyright © The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. 1993

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1. Southern, David W., Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations: The Use and Abuse of “An American Dilemma,” 1944–1969 (Baton Rouge, La., 1987)Google Scholar, examines the reception of Myrdal's work. Stanfield, John H., Philanthropy and Jim Crow in American Social Science (Westport, Conn., 1985)Google Scholar, explores the influence of foundations on the social-scientific research about race that they sponsored in the interwar years and gives Myrdal's work extended attention in chapter 7. Condliffe, Ellen Lagemann devotes a chapter to the Myrdal study in The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy (Middletown, Conn., 1989).Google Scholar

2. The most recent and detailed attempt to make this case is Stanfield, Philanthropy and Jim Crow in American Social Science, esp. chap. 7.

3. For social thinkers, see Purcell, Edward A., The Crisis of Democratic Theory (Lexington, Ky., 1973).Google Scholar

4. Platt's, Anthony M. recent E. Franklin Frazier Reconsidered (New Brunswick, N.J., 1991) takes a step in this direction.Google Scholar