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Current Reading

It has been more than forty years since the publication of Gunnar Myrdal’s An American Dilemma. In that work, Myrdal described the economic situation of blacks in 1944 America as “pathological”:

Except for a small minority enjoying upper or middle class status, the masses of American negroes.., are destitute. They own little property; even their household goods are mostly inadequate and dilapidated. Their incomes are not only low but irregular. They thus live from day to day and have scant security for the future. Their entire culture and their individual interests and strivings are narrow.

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