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An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy
work by Myrdal
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contributions by Bunche
- In Ralph Bunche
race relations, published as An American Dilemma in 1944.
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discussed in biography
- In Gunnar Myrdal
…Americans in 1938–40 and wrote An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944). In this work Myrdal presented his theory of cumulative causation—that is, of poverty creating poverty. Myrdal also pointed out that two economic policies implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration inadvertently destroyed jobs for hundreds…
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