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Subject(s)

• African Americans [Browse]
• United States—Race relations [Browse]

Related name

• Sterner, Richard, 1901-1978 [Browse]
• Rose, Arnold M. (Arnold Marshall), 1918-1968 [Browse]
• Sterner, Richard, 1901-1978 [Browse]

Summary note

"This book tackled the stark contradiction between America's ideal of equality and the realities of racism against African-Americans, as well as other oppressed groups. In it, Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal argued that rampant discrimination not only negated America's founding principles, but also diminished its productivity and advancement. Cited in the landmark segregation case Brown v. Board of Education, the book greatly influenced perspectives on race relations and helped form the foundation for the civil rights movement"--Google Books.

Notes

• Paged continuously.
• "Seventh edition."

Bibliographic references

"List of books, pamphlets, periodicals and other material referred to": v. 2, p. 1114-1180.

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Contents

• Foreword, by Frederick P. Keppel
• Author's Preface
• Introduction
• The Negro Problem as a Moral Issue
• Valuations and Beliefs
• A White Man's Problem
• Not an Isolated Problem
• Some Further Notes on the Scope and Direction of This Study
• A Warning to the Reader
• Part I: The Approach
• 1. American Ideals and the American Conscience
• Unity of Ideals and Diversity of Culture
• American Nationalism
• Some Historical Reflections
• The Roots of the American Creed in the Philosophy of Enlightenment
• The Roots in Christianity
• The Roots in English Law
• American Conservatism
• The American Conception of Law and Order
• Natural Law and American Puritanism
• The Faltering Judicial Order
• Intellectual Defeatism
• "Lip-Service"
• Value Premises in This Study
• 2. Encountering the Negro Problem
• On the Minds of the Whites
• To the Negroes Themselves
• Explaining the Problem Away
• Explorations in Escape
• The Etiquette of Discussion
• The Convenience of Ignorance
• Negro and White Voices
• The North and the South
• 3. Facets of the Negro Problem
• American Minority Problems
• The Anti-Amalgamation Doctrine
• The White Man's Theory of Color Caste
• The "Rank Order of Discriminations"
• Relationships between Lower Class Groups
• The Manifoldness and the Unity of the Negro Problem
• The Theory of the Vicious Circle
• A Theory of Democracy
• 4. Racial Beliefs
• Biology and Moral Equalitarianism
• The Ideological Clash in America
• The Ideological Compromise
• Reflections in Science
• The Position of Negro Writers
• The Racial Beliefs of the Unsophisticated
• Beliefs with a Purpose
• Specific Rationalization Needs
• Rectifying Beliefs
• The Study of Beliefs
• 5. Race and Ancestry
• The American Definition of "Negro"
• African Ancestry
• Changes in Physical Appearance
• Early Miscegenation
• Ante-Bellum Miscegenation
• Miscegenation in Recent Times
• "Passing"
• Social and Biological Selection
• Present and Future Genetic Composition Trends
• 6. Racial Characteristics
• Physical Traits
• Biological Susceptibility to Disease
• Psychic Traits
• Frontiers of Constructive Research
• Part III: Population and Migration
• 7. Population
• The Growth of the Negro Population
• Births and Deaths
• Summary
• Ends and Means of Population Policy
• Controlling the Death Rate
• The Case for Controlling the Negro Birth Rate
• Birth Control Facilities for Negroes
• 8. Migration
• Overview
• A Closer View
• The Great Migration to the Urban North
• Continued Northward Migration
• The Future of Negro Migration
• Part IV: Economics
• 9. Economic Inequality
• Negro Poverty
• Our Main Hypothesis: The Vicious Circle
• The Value Premises
• The Conflict of Valuations
• 10. The Tradition of Slavery
• Economic Exploitation
• Slavery and Caste
• The Land Problem
• The Tenancy Problem
• 11. The Southern Plantation Economy and the Negro Farmer
• Southern Agriculture as a Problem
• Overpopulation and Soil Erosion
• Tenancy, Credit and Cotton
• The Boll Weevil
• Main Agricultural Classes
• The Negro Landowner
• Historical Reasons for the Relative Lack of Negro Farm Owners
• Tenants and Wage Laborers
• The Plantation Tenant
• 12. New Blows to Southern Agriculture During the 'Thirties: Trends and Policies
• Agricultural Trends During the 'Thirties
• The Disappearing Sharecropper
• The Role of the A.A.A. in Regard to Cotton
• A.A.A. and the Negro
• The Local Administration of the A.A.A.
• Mechanization
• Labor Organizations
• The Dilemma of Agricultural Policy
• Economic Evaluation of the A.A.A.
• Social Evaluation of the A.A.A.
• Constructive Measures
• Farm Security Programs
• 13. Seeking Jobs Outside Agriculture
• Perspective on the Urbanization of the Negro People
• In the South
• Southern Trends during the 'Thirties
• In the North
• A Closer View on Northern Trends
• The Employment Hazards of Unskilled Work
• The Size of the Negro Labor Force and Negro Employment
• Negro and White Unemployment
• 14. The Negro in Business, the Professions, Public
• Service and Other White Collar Occupations
• The Negro in Business
• Negro Finance
• The Negro Teacher
• The Negro Minister
• The Negro in Medical Professions
• Other Negro Professionals
• Negro Officials and White Collar Workers in Public Service
• Negro Professionals of the Stage, Screen and Orchestra
• Note on Shady Occupations
• 15. The Negro in the Public Economy
• The Public Budget
• Discrimination in Public Service
• Education
• Public Health
• Recreational Facilities
• Public Housing Policies
• Social Security and Public Assistance
• Specialized Social Welfare Programs during the Period After 1935
• The Social Security Program
• Assistance to Special Groups
• Work Relief
• Assistance to Youth
• General Relief and Assistance in Kind
• 16. Income, Consumption and Housing
• Family Income
• Income and Family Size
• The Family Budget
• Budget Items
• Food Consumption
• Housing Conditions
• 17. The Mechanics of Economic Discrimination as a Practital Problem
• The Practical Problem
• The Ignorance and Lack of Concern of Northern Whites
• Migration Policy
• The Regular Industrial Labor Market in the North
• The Problem of Vocational Training
• The Self-Perpetuating Color Bar
• A Position or "Indifferent Equilibrium"
• 18. Pre-War Labor Market Controls and Their Consequences for the Negro
• The Wages and Hours Law and the Dilemma of the Marginal Worker
• Other Economic Policies
• Labor Unions and the Negro
• A Weak Movement Getting Strong Powers
• 19. The War Boom
• and Thereafter
• The Negro Wage Earner and the War Boom
• Government Policy in Regard to the Negro in War Production
• The Negro in the Armed Forces
• . . . And Afterwards?
• Part V: Politics
• 20. Underlying Factors
• The Negro in American Politics and as a Political Issue
• The Wave of Democracy and the Need for Bureaucracy
• The Southern Defense Ideology
• The Reconstruction Amendments
• Memories of Reconstruction
• The Tradition of Illegality
• 21. Southern Conservatism and Liberalism
• The. "Solid South"
• Southern Conservatism
• Is the South Fascist?
• The Changing South
• Southern Liberalism
• 22. Political Practices Today
• The Southern Political Scene
• Southern Techniques for Disfranchising the Negroes
• The Negro Vote in the South
• The Negro in Northern Politics
• What the Negro Gets Out of Politics
• 23. Trends and Possibilities
• The Negro's Political Bargaining Power
• The Negro's Party Allegiance
• Negro Suffrage in the South as an Issue
• An Unstable Situation
• The Stake of the North
• Practical Conclusions
• Part VI: Justice
• 24. Inequality of Justice
• Democracy and Justice
• Relative Equality in the North
• The Southern Heritage
• 25. The Police and Other Public Contacts
• Local Petty Officials
• The Southern Policeman
• The Policeman in the Negro Neighborhood
• Trends and Outlook
• Another Type of Public Contact
• 26. Courts, Sentences and Prisons
• The Southern Courts
• Discrimination in Court
• Sentences and Prisons
• 27. Violence and Intimidation
• The Pattern of Violence
• Lynching
• The Psychopathology of Lynching
• Riots
• Part VII: Social Inequality
• 28. The Basis of Social Inequality
• The Value Premise
• The One-Sidedness of the System of Segregation
• The Beginning in Slavery
• The Jim Crow Laws
• Beliefs Supporting Social Inequality
• The Popular Theory of "No Social Equality"
• Critical Evaluation of the "No Social Equality" Theory
• Attitudes among Different Classes of Whites in the South
• Social Segregation and Discrimination in the North
• 29. Patterns of Social Segregation and Discrimination
• Facts and Beliefs Regarding Segregation and Discrimination
• Segregation and Discrimination in interpersonal Relations
• Housing Segregation
• Sanctions for Residential Segregation
• The General Character of Institutional Segregation
• Segregation in Specific Types of Institutions
• 30. Effects of Social Inequality
• The Incidence of Social Inequality
• Increasing Isolation
• Interracial Contacts
• The Factor of Ignorance
• Present Dynamics
• Part VIII: Social Stratification
• 31. Caste and Class
• The Concepts "Caste" and "Class"
• The "Meaning" of the Concepts "Caste" and "Class"
• The Caste Struggle
• Crossing the Caste Line
• 32. The Negro Class Structure
• The Negro Class Order in the American Caste System
• Caste Determines Class
• Color and Class
• The Classes in the Negro Community
• Part IX: Leadership and Concerted Action
• 33. The American Pattern of Individual Leadership and Mass Passivity
• "Intelligent Leadership"
• "Community Leaders"
• Mass Passivity
• The Patterns Exemplified in Politics and throughout the American Social Structure
• 34. Accommodating Leadership
• Leadership and Caste
• The Interests of Whites and Negroes with Respect to Negro Leadership
• In the North and on the National Scene
• The "Glass Plate"
• Accommodating Leadership and Class
• Several Qualifications
• Accommodating Leaders in the North
• The Glamour Personalities
• 35. The Negro Protest
• The Slave Revolts
• The Negro Abolitionists and Reconstruction Politicians
• The Tuskegee Compromise
• The Spirit of Niagara and Harper's Ferry
• The Protest Is Still Rising
• The Shock of the First World War and the Post- War Crisis
• The Garvey Movement
• Post- War Radicalism among Negro Intellectuals
• Negro History and Culture
• The Great Depression and the Second World War
• 36. The Protest Motive and Negro Personality
• A Mental Reservation
• The Struggle Against Defeatism
• The Struggle for Balance
• Negro Sensitiveness
• Negro Aggression
• Upper Class Reactions
• The "Function" of Racial Solidarity
• 37. Compromise Leadership
• The Daily Compromise
• The Vulnerability of the Negro Leader
• Impersonal Motives
• The Protest Motive
• The Double Role
• Negro Leadership Techniques
• Moral Consequences
• Leadership Rivalry
• Qualifications
• In Southern Cities
• On the National Scene
• 38. Negro Popular Theories
• Instability
• Negro Provincialism
• The Thinking on the Negro Problem
• Courting the "Best People Among the Whites"
• The Doctrine of Labor Solidarity
• Some Critical Observations
• The Pragmatic "Truth" of the Labor Solidarity Doctrine
• "The Advantages of the Disadvantages"
• Condoning Segregation
• Boosting Negro Business
• Criticism of Negro Business Chauvinism
• "Back to Africa"
• Miscellaneous Ideologies
• 39. Negro Improvement and Protest Organizations
• A General American Pattern
• Nationalist Movements
• Business and Professional Organizations
• The National Negro Congress Movement
• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• The N.A.A.C.P. Branches
• The N.A.A.C.P. National Office
• The Strategy of the N.A.A.C.P.
• Critique of the N.A.A.C.P.
• The Urban League
• The Commission on Interracial Cooperation
• The Negro Organizations during the War
• Negro Strategy
• 40. The Negro Church
• Non-Political Agencies for Negro Concerted Action
• Some Historical Notes
• The Negro Church and the General American Pattern of Religious Activity
• A Segregated Church
• Its Weakness
• 41. The Negro School
• Negro Education as Concerted Action
• Education in American Thought and Life
• The Development of Negro Education in the South
• The Whites' Attitudes toward Negro Education
• "Industrial" versus "Classical" Education of Negroes
• Negro Attitudes
• Trends and Problems
• 42. The Negro Press
• An Organ for the Negro Protest
• The Growth of the Negro Press
• Characteristics of the Negro Press
• The Controls of the Negro Press
• Outlook
• Part X. The Negro Community
• 43. Institutions
• The Negro Community as a Pathological Form of an American Community
• The Negro Family
• The Negro Church in the Negro Community
• The Negro School and Negro Education
• Voluntary Associations
• 44. Non-Institutional Aspects of the Negro Community
• "Peculiarities" of Negro Culture and Personality
• Crime
• Mental Disorders and Suicide
• Recreation
• Negro Achievements
• Part XI. An American Dilemma
• 45. America Again at the Crossroads in the Negro Problem
• The Negro Problem and the War
• Social Trends
• The Decay of the Caste Theory
• Negroes in the War Crisis
• The War and the Whites
• The North Moves Toward Equality
• Tension in the South
• International Aspects
• Making the Peace
• America's Opportunity
• Appendix 1: A Methodological Note on Valuations and Beliefs
• The Mechanism of Rationalization
• Theoretical Critique of the Concept "Mores"
• Valuation Dynamics
• Appendix 2: A Methodological Note on Facts and Valuations in Social Science
• Biases in the Research on the American Negro Problem
• Methods of Mitigating Biases in Social Science
• The History and Logic of the Hidden Valuations in Social Science
• The Points of View Adopted in This Book
• Appendix 3: A Methodological Note on the Principle of Cumulation
• Appendix 4: Note on the Meaning of Regional Terms as Used in This Book
• Appendix 5: A Parallel to the Negro Problem
• Appendix 6: Pre-War Conditions of the Negro Wage Earner in Selected Industries and Occupations
• General Characteristics of Negro Jobs
• Domestic Service
• Other Service Occupations
• Turpentine Farms
• Lumber
• The Fertilizer Industry
• Longshore Work
• Building Workers
• Railroad Workers
• Tobacco Workers
• Textile Workers
• Coal Miners
• Iron and Steel Workers
• Automobile Workers
• The Slaughtering and Meat Packing Industry
• Appendix 7: Distribution of Negro Residences in Selected Cities
• Appendix 8: Research on Caste and Class in a Negro Community
• Appendix 9: Research on Negro Leadership
• Appendix 10: Quantitative Studies of Race Attitudes
• Existing Studies of Race Attitudes
• The Empirical Study of Valuations and Beliefs
• "Personal" and "Political" Opinions
• The Practical Study of Race Prejudice
• List of Books, Pamphlets, Periodicals, and Other Material Referred to in This Book
• Numbered Footnotes.

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