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An American Dilemma The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, Volume 1 (Black & African-American Studies)

Gunnar Myrdal

In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, 'An American Dilemma', refers to the moral contradiction of a natio...

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Behind the Bastards

It was a 1944 study that highlighted how police often represented white supremacy and social customs rather than solely civic order.

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The policeman stands not only for civic order as defined in formal laws and regulations, but also for white supremacy and the whole set of social customs associated with this concept.

— Episode: Behind the Police: How The Police Defeat...

Episode: Behind the Police: How The Police Defeated Lynchin...

It was a 1944 study that highlighted how police often represented white supremacy and social customs rather than solely civic order.

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The policeman stands not only for civic order as defined in formal laws and regulations, but also for white supremacy and the whole set of social customs associated with this concept.

Episode: Behind the Police: How The Police Defeated Lynchin...

It was cited as a 1944 study that saw police as representing not only order but also white supremacy and social customs related to it.

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The policeman stands not only for civic order as defined in formal laws and regulations, but also for white supremacy and the whole set of social customs associated with this concept.

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