White Philanthropy (eBook)

Carnegie Corporation's An American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order

Maribel Morey (Autor)

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2021
328 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-6475-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdals An American Dilemma as a defining text on U.S. race relations. Here, Maribel Morey confirms with historical evidence what many critics of the book have suspected: An American Dilemma was not commissioned, funded, or written with the goal of challenging white supremacy. Instead, Morey reveals it was commissioned by Carnegie Corporation president Frederick Keppel, and researched and written by Myrdal, with the intent of solidifying white rule over Black people in the United States.Morey details the complex global origins of An American Dilemma, illustrating its links to Carnegie Corporations funding of social science research meant to help white policymakers in the Anglo-American world address perceived problems in their governance of Black people. Morey also unpacks the text itself, arguing that Myrdal ultimately complemented his funders intentions for the project by keeping white Americans as his principal audience and guiding them towards a national policy program on Black Americans that would keep intact white domination. Because for Myrdal and Carnegie Corporation alike, international order rested on white Anglo-Americans continued ability to dominate effectively.

Autor

Maribel Morey is founding executive director of the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.10.2021
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: An African Survey: A Study of Problems Arising in Africa South of the Sahara (1938) • An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) • Carnegie Corporation of New York • Frederick Keppel • Gunnar and Alva Reimer Myrdal • History of the social sciences in the U.S., South Africa, and continental and northern Europe • History of U.S. philanthropy • J.H. Oldham • Malcolm Hailey • Phelps Stokes Fund • Rockefeller organizations: Rockefeller Foundation, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, General Education Board • Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) • Social Science Research Council (SSRC) • The Poor White Problem in South Africa (1932) • Thomas Jesse Jones • tuskegee institute
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-6475-5 / 1469664755
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-6475-0 / 9781469664750