White philanthropy : Carnegie Corporation's An American dilemma and the making of a white world order / Maribel Morey.
| Author/creator |
Morey, Maribel author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021] |
| Description | ix, 317 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Sufficiently white : Carnegie Corporation's international reach -- Paying for our well-meant attempts to govern subject races : a cautious turn to Africa -- From education to the applied social sciences : finding new tools to tame the 'growth of a racial consciousness among Black peoples' -- Building white solidarity in South Africa -- Uniting white people across empires in Africa -- Importing the African survey to the United States -- The novelty of an imperial study in the United States -- The imperial study gains support in the United States -- In sync with Carnegie Corporation : Gunnar Myrdal offers blueprints for a new equilibrium in white Anglo-American domination -- A bound English-speaking white world : solidifying international order along the color line. |
| Abstract | "Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdal's 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: that An American Dilemma never was commissioned, funded, or written with the goal of deeply challenging white supremacy. It was commissioned by Carnegie Corporation President Frederick Keppel, and researched and written by Myrdal, precisely with the intent of solidifying white rule over Black people in the U.S. Morey details the complex global origins of An American Dilemma, illustrating how the book was part of Carnegie Corporation's efforts to finance social science studies that would 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 funder's intensions 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 as Carnegie Corporation, international order rested on white Anglo-Americans' continued ability to dominate effectively"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781469664767 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2021003503 |
| ISBN | 9781469664736 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1469664739 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781469664743 paperback |
| ISBN | 1469664747 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | E184 .A1 M667 2021 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |