An American Dilemma Analysis

It appears that we have been investigating the cause and effects of race and racism for quick some time, as a middle age adult in the year 2015, I feel that we have run into a brick wall which seems too hard to break though, too wide to get around and runs to deep to get under.

Over seventy years ago a man by the name of Gunnar Myrdal published “An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944), which focus on thinking that relates to race and politics in America. Mr. Myrdal was commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation to investigate “the Negro problem,” right here in the United States of American. This Swedish gentleman was chosen for a few reasons, some being that his country was assumed to have little to no history of

As mentioned in Ralph Edward’s review An American Dilemma lies in its demonstration of how the mechanism of prejudice operates to disguise the moral conflict in the minds of whites produced by the clash on the social level between the American Creed and anti-Negro practices.

Taylor wrote about the “Racial Privacy Initiative” that some Californians were trying to get on the ballots in November 2002. This political proposal stated “By re-emphasizing America’s checkered racial history, race classifications focus our attention on what divides us, rather than what unites us. If we are to solve the educational, social and economic problems of tomorrow, we must unite our hearts and minds pursuing common goals. As long as we keep counting by skin color, we can never become “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Paul Taylor Race Taylor ascertains in his book that racism can be birthed out of any kind of race-thinking, it also clarified the false thinking of racial biology and that race is nothing but differences of class divisions. Race continues to have a place in our conversation; some may see it as just mere words to speak at the right time and in the right place, but race-thinking seems to live in its own little world, non-related to any ill will to anyone. It is as if it is only connected to the failure to restrict the quest for profit and to emphasize justice and civility with regards to political authority. Taylor also speaks to how racist ideology and practices can certainly bring about results that can focus on one race and bring about economic hardship to that specific group. Taylor said