- unitid
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{"value"=>"20555", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"Sc Micro R-6534", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"Sc Micro F-13242", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1935-1948", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1935/1948"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"13 microfilm reels, 26 microfiche folders", "unit"=>"containers"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1.03 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear_feet"}]}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection consists of twenty-nine memoranda prepared by the team of social scientists; letters from Frederick Keppel, president of the Carnegie Corporation, establishing the project; correspondence between Keppel and Gunnar Myrdal; memoranda of interviews with Myrdal and the social scientists who wrote the reports; and files for the Committee on Selection."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Carnegie Corporation of New York", "type"=>"corpname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>The Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America, 1937-1941, was a comprehensive investigation of African-American life commissioned by the Carnegie Corporation of New York as a guide for the Corporation's activities as well as for \"broader reasons\".</p> <p>The Corporation hired Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish social scientist with the University of Stockholm and an advisor to the Swedish government, to organize and direct the project. Myrdal put together a team of social scientists of both races and sexes with the mandate of preparing memoranda on all aspects of life in the African American community. These memoranda were to serve as working documents which would assist him in the preparation of his report. The report, published in 1944, was entitled, <span class=\"title\">An American Dilemma</span> (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1944).</p> <p>The social scientists who worked on the project and produced memoranda included anthropologists, sociologists, and political scientists. They included M. F. Ashley-Montague, Margaret Brenman, Sterling Brown, Ralph J. Bunche, Barbara Burks, Allison Davis, Harold F. Dorn, J. G. St. Clair Drake, G. James Fleming, Lyonel C. Florant, E. Franklin Frazier, T. Arnold Hill, E. C. Isbell, Charles S. Johnson, Guion G. Johnson, Guy B. Johnson, Louise K. Kiser, Dudley Kirk, Otto Klineberg, Ruth Landes, Gunnar Lange, T. C. McCormick, Benjamin Malzberg, Paul Norgren, E. Nelson Palmer, Arthur Raper, Ira de A. Reid, Edward A. Shils, Richard Sterner, Samuel A. Stouffer, Louis Wirth, Doxey Wilkerson, and Thomas J. Woofter.</p> <p>The memoranda cover a variety of topics such as religion, leisure activities, labor, family, health, leadership, organizations, migration, education, political status, mental disease, miscegenation, segregation, stereotypes, and physical characteristics. According to Myrdal, in his preface to <span class=\"title\">An American Dilemma</span>, he relied most heavily on the memoranda by Bunche (\"Conceptions and Ideologies of the Negro Problem\", \"The Programs, Ideologies, Tactics, and Achievements of Negro Betterment and Interracial Organizations\", \"A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership\", \"The Political Status of the Negro\"), Norgren (\"Negro Labor and Its Problems\"), Raper (\"Race and Class Pressures\"), Stouffer and Florant (\"Negro Population and Negro Population Movements, 1860-1940\"), Dorn (\"The Health of the Negro\"), Drake (\"Negro Churches and Associations in Chicago\"), Kirk (\"The Fertility of the Negro\"), and Lange (\"Trends in Southern Agriculture\").</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>This collection is organized into two series, Research memoranda and General correspondence and memoranda. The Research memoranda series consists of the twenty-nine memoranda prepared by the team of social scientists.</p> <p>General correspondence and memoranda series include letters from Frederick Keppel, President of the Carnegie Corporation, establishing the project; correspondence between Keppel and Gunnar Myrdal; memoranda or interviews with Myrdal and the social scientists who wrote the reports; files for the Committee on Selection, 1940-1943; and letters with scholars and experts with whom Myrdal conferred. The correspondents include Sterling Brown, Ralph J. Bunche, Horace R. Cayton, Melville Herskovits, Guy B. Johnson, Paul Norgren, Richard Sterner, Samuel A. Stouffer (director of the project during Myrdal's absence in Europe during the war years), Dorothy S. Thomas, Doxey A. Wilkerson, and Thomas J. Woofter, Jr.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>Organized into two series: (1) Research memoranda and (2) General correspondence and memoranda.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1943.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>Related materials in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture:</p> <p>\"An American Dilemma\", Literary and Scholarly Manuscript Colection</p> <p> Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection: additions</p> <p>Ralph J. Bunche Papers</p> <p> Bernhard Stern/Alain Locke Collection</p>"}
- bibliography
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{"id"=>"aspace_3fea54e5e7f76b85d1716aadb6aab94e", "value"=>"<p> Johnson, Charles S. Patterns of Negro Segregation (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1943</p> <p>Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma. (New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1944</p>"}
- date_start
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1935
- keydate
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1935
- date_end
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1948
- date_inclusive_start
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1935
- date_inclusive_end
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1948
- extent_statement
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1.03 linear feet (13 microfilm reels, 26 microfiche folders)
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"[Item], Carnegie-Myrdal Study of the Negro in America research memoranda collection, Sc Micro F-13242, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library"}