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"[T]he most far-ranging, information-rich analysis of our seismic racial shifts since Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma of 1944," says Jim Sleeper in the Wall Street Journal . In the New York Times Book Review , however, Nicholas Lemann says, "To assume the Myrdal mantle means speaking in a calm, clear, generous voice, but America in Black and White does this only intermittently.
Is there an automatic place for the top consciousness-raising tracts of the fifties (David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd ), sixties (Norman O. Brown's Love's Body ), seventies (Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism ), and eighties (Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind )? A tempting (and sensible) option is to split the difference between influence and style by picking the top books about the major events of the century: Communism (snubbing Whittaker Chambers's Witness would be a scandal), race and colonialism (Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma , Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude ); modern art (Woolf's A Room of One's Own , alas; Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle , if To the Finland Station misses under Communism); and the Holocaust (with Anne Frank's diary likely to top the whole list).
In 1944, Gunnar Myrdal, in An American Dilemma , noted that "even a liberal-minded Northerner of cosmopolitan culture will, in nine cases out of ten, express a definite feeling against" interracial marriage.