Myrdal

Thus, with respect to Myrdal's assertion, two insights are worth mentioning.

Does anyone today remember what genuine, durable and historic contributions to world peace were made by Norman Angell, Robert Cecil, Emily Balch or Alva Myrdal prize winners all?

Rothstein references a section of An American Dilemma, the 1944 classic on race in America by the late Swedish economist and Nobel laureate Gunnar Myrdal. In it, Myrdal tells how the U.S.

It's a six-hour ride to get to our first stop, Myrdal, and we have to transfer to another train to get to Flam.

Duneier's examination of the scholarship and activism of Horace Cayton, Kenneth Clark, William Julius Wilson and Geoffrey Canada reveals their struggle not only to understand and solve the problem of the ghetto, but also to deal with white readers, colleagues and funders who prefer theories that absolve whites of guilt and that trace the problem of the ghetto to family breakdown and immorality All ultimately doubted Gunnar Myrdal's contention that the solution to the problem of racial discrimination in the U.S.

Similarly, the black and white refracted glass dome ceiling she fashioned for Jean-Francois Piege's Le Grand Restaurant in Paris last year strongly evokes Vik i Myrdal, the black sand beach studded with rock formations.

When the economist Gunnar Myrdal was researching his book Asian Drama, his classic investigation into Asian poverty, he found that one subject was "almost taboo" among scholars and planners.

Yet as he tells the story of the evolution of American thinking about the black ghettoprimarily through the lens of successive generations of academic sociologists, from Gunnar Myrdal to William Julius Wilsonthe Jewish ghetto refuses to disappear.

In this respect, I would include among Simon's intellectual predecessors Gunnar Myrdal, whose post-World War II vision of American race relations, An American Dilemma, stressed "the moralistic optimism of America," as well as its obligation to live up to its professed ideals (Myrdal 1944, 1021).

Cruise through a majestic landscape awakening from wintertime in a burst of new life, and enjoy the picture-postcard-perfect scenery as you discover exquisite Hardangerord, where tiny Ulvik is an oasis of tranquillity, pay a visit to remote Flam, where you might board the world famous Flamsbana Mountain Railway for the breathtaking journey to Myrdal, and cruise through the reaches of mighty Sogneord, Norway's longest and deepest.

With the help from Gunnar Myrdal Alf Ross got in contact with Axel Hagerstrom, the Professor of Philosophy at Uppsala University.

(45) Due to his newly-attained scholarly recognition, Wilkerson was invited to participate in a foundational study on the African American educational experience in the South led by Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal. While conducting this study, Wilkerson became one of the ranking intellectuals within a small cohort of social scientists and skilled researchers.

The foundational text of racial liberalism was Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma, published in 1944, which argued that black "pathologies" were the product not of biology but of slavery, segregation, and discrimination and could be corrected by treating blacks with "scientific social engineering" instead of scientific racism.