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THE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SITUATION: GUNNAR MYRDAL S ERA AND TODAY.

Author: Dentler, R.
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Date 1/1/95
Type Journal
Journal Title: Daedalus
Volume/Pages 124(1)p.15-36
Publisher
Subject Matter African American
Population
Pedagogies
Abstract Examines race relations since the publication of Gunnar Myrdal s An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) and assesses the sociopolitical situation for blacks in the1990 s. Myrdal expected black gains if they had full suffrage, remained within the two-party system, and voted as a bloc. Myrdal s prescriptions, however, failed to increase black power significantly. Gains were onlysymbolic because blacks lost unity, socioeconomic fragmentation made blacks but one of many competing groups, and antichange backlash persisted.
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