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White philanthropy Carnegie Corporation's : an American dilemma and the making of a white world order /

"Since its publication in 1944, many Americans have described Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma as a defining text on U.S. race relations. Here, Maribel Morey confirms with historical evidence what many critics of the book have suspected: that An American Dilemma never was commissioned,...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morey, Maribel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Sufficiently White: Carnegie Corporation's International Reach
  • 1. Frederick Keppel Becomes President of Carnegie Corporation
  • 2. Andrew Carnegie's Vision of Philanthropy in the "English-Speaking" World
  • 3. James Bertram Interprets Carnegie's Intentions as Philanthropist
  • Chapter 2. Paying for Our Well-Meant Attempts to Govern Subject Races: A Cautious Turn to Africa
  • 1. Andrew Carnegie's"Negro in America"(1907)
  • 2. Elite U.S. Philanthropy's Funding of Education for Black Americans
  • 3. Thomas Jesse Jones's Negro Education (1917)
  • 4. Jones, U.S. Philanthropy, and the Tuskegee Model
  • 5. Jones and Carnegie Corporation's 1925 Grant to Kenya
  • 6. Building on Carnegie Corporation's 1925 Grant to Kenya
  • Chapter 3. From Education to the Social Sciences: Finding New Tools to Tame the "Growth of a Racial Consciousness among Black Peoples"
  • 1. J. H. Oldham's Fear of Black Unity and Why CarnegieCorporation Took It Seriously
  • 2. Intellectual Context for J. H. Oldham's Support of Thorough Data Collection in British Africa
  • 3. Carnegie Corporation Tours British Africa
  • 4. The Corporation Decides to Fund Research in British Africa
  • Chapter 4. Building White Solidarity in South Africa
  • 1. Keppel Finds Inspiration in "Co-Operative Research" in the United States
  • 2. A U.S. Research Model in South Africa
  • 3. The Poor White Problem in South Africa (1932)
  • 4. Carnegie Corporation Questions the South African Government's Model of White Rule
  • Chapter 5. Uniting White People across Empires in Africa
  • 1. Carnegie Corporation President Keppel Reaches Out to J. H. Oldham
  • 2. Carnegie Corporation's Chatham House Advisers
  • 3. These Chatham House Advisers' Rationale for an African Survey
  • 4. These Advisers' Preferred Research Structure and Public Policy Goals for an African Survey
  • 6. Malcolm Hailey's African Survey (1938)
  • 7. The Reception of An African Survey
  • Chapter 6. Importing Malcolm Hailey's African Survey to the United States
  • 1. A Carnegie Corporation Trustee Challenges the Corporation's Support of the Tuskegee Educational Model for Black Americans
  • 2. Northern U.S. Context for Newton Baker's Critique
  • 3. Through an International Lens, Keppel Reflects on Baker's Criticisms
  • 4. Carnegie Corporation Replicates the Research Structure of the African Survey in the United States
  • 5. Keppel Adapts a "Hailey Type" to a U.S. Context
  • 6. Keppel Communicates Expectations to Gunnar Myrdal
  • Chapter 7. The Novelty of a "Hailey Type" Study in the United States
  • 1. Rockefeller Funding and the Social Sciences on Black Americans
  • 2. The Social Science Research Council before and after the Rockefeller Organizations'Consolidation in 1929
  • 3. Before Keppel's London Import, There Was W. E. B. Du Bois's Encyclopedia
  • 4. U.S. Calls for National Policymaking on Black Americans