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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.
- 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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