Author: Gunnar Myrdal

Publisher: Transaction Publishers

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 814

ISBN-13: 1560008563

This landmark effort to understand African-American people in the New World provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The touchstone of this classic is the jarring discrepancy between the American creed of respect for the inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and opportunity for all and the pervasive violations of the dignity of blacks.