Myrdal

Sam Pawlett rsp at uniserve.com
Wed Oct 11 12:27:20 PDT 2000


Michael Yates wrote:
>
> Myrdal suggested that slaves have been allowed to buy parcels from plantations with long-term low interest loans, but he never suggested that slaves themselves be paid. As Randall Robinson says in his fine book, "The Debt," Myrdal, in his book on race ("An American Dilemma"), never mentions the words, "reparation, restitution,
> indemnity, or compensation."
>

Speaking of Gunnar Myrdal, I recently picked up his 3 volume work on Asia and 2 volume work on the USA for a couple of bucks. Are these worth reading? Kind of dated and pretty time consuming.

Sam Pawlett



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