Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma: Do Whites Still Wish That Blacks Would Simply Go Away? From: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education | Date: January 31, 2004 | Copyright CH II Publishers, Inc. Jan 31, 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

IT HAS BEEN said that some people in the United States think of black folk as something akin to crabgrass, a pesky intruder that is a big nuisance in our country.

In his landmark 1944 study The American Dilemma, Swedish scholar Gunnar Myrdal wrote that "the overwhelming majority of white Americans desire that there be as few Negroes as possible in America."

Now 60 years later, JBHE asked a group of scholars, both black and white, whether they believe the Myrdal statement current...

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