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The Negro in America. / By Arnold Rose. With a foreward by Gunnar Myrdal.

Penn Museum Library E185.6 .R75 1956
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rose, Arnold M. (Arnold Marshall), 1918-1968.
Contributor:
Myrdal, Gunnar, 1898-1987.
Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Beacon paperbacks ; 27.
Beacon paperbacks ; 27
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African Americans--History--1877-1964.
African Americans.
History.
African Americans--Politics and government--20th century.
African Americans--Politics and government.
Democracy--United States--History--20th century.
Democracy.
United States--Race relations--20th century.
United States.
Race relations.
Penn Provenance:
Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)
Poore, John (autograph) (Banks Collection copy)
Physical Description:
xxvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 324 pages ; .21 cm.
Place of Publication:
Boston, Beacon Press 1956.
Contents:
The Negro Problem and Its American Setting
Race: Beliefs and Facts
Population and Migration
The Economic Background
The Old Plantation Economy and the New
Jobs Outside Agriculture
What the Negro Gets Out of the Economy
Economic Discrimination and How it Works
The Basic Political Factors
Political Practices Today and in the Future
The Unequal Administration of Justice
The Basis of Social Inequality
Social Segregation and Its Effects
Caste and Class
Negro Leadership and the Negro Protest
Popular Theories and Action Organizations
Basic Protest Institutions: Church, School, Press
The Negro Community
America at the Crossroads.
Notes:
First published in 1948 is condensed from An American dilemma by Gunnar Myrdal with the assistance of Richard Sterner and Arnold Rose.
"First Beacon Paperback edition published in 1956 by arrangement with Harper & Brothers ..."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.
Banks Collection copy has autograph of John Poore.
Banks Collection copy is "Sixth Printing, January 1962".
OCLC:
1308831

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