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Author:   Walter A. Jackson ,  Grey Osterud
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780367497071

ISBN 10:   0367497077
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   18 May 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Unsparing Honesty Part 1: Becoming Alva, Becoming Gunnar 2. Alva’s Family on the Edge of Poverty 3. Alva in the Family Crucible 4. Alva and the Great Hunger 5. From Kalle Pettersson to Gunnar Myrdal 6. Gunnar the Outsider Part 2: Alva and Gunnar 7. “Faith is that which the heart trusts” 8. “Souls as great as ours” 9. “How to operate on the heart” 10. “I was surprised that you understood me so well” Part 3: Gunnar in Crisis, 1941 11. The Dialectic of Love and Power 12. Collapse and Catharsis 13. Trolls, Strindberg, and Faust 14. The Feminist Complex 15. Dilemmas of Gender and Race Part 4: Alva in Crisis, 1944 16. Together and Separately 17. The Formation of the Psyche 18. Dream Diary 19. Politician’s Wife or Independent Woman?

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Walter Anderson Jackson III (1950–2015) is best known for Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism,1938–1973 (1990), which analyzes the making of Myrdal’s An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (1944) in relation to early twentieth-century Swedish and American social thought. Jackson grew up in the South during the Civil Rights Movement and earned a BA (mcl) from Duke and a PhD from Harvard. His life’s work was prompted by questions about racial inequality in the United States and the perspective a European social democratic thinker brought to this fraught issue. Jackson published numerous articles on white racial liberalism, African American sociologists and anthropologists, and theories of interracial relations. Beloved by students and the public for grounding the civil rights struggle in local history and highlighting the voices and viewpoints of participants, he appeared on the 2015 PBS program, “American Denial.”

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