keeps the diverse melting pot of the United States together. It is the common belief in this creed that endows all people—whites, blacks, rich, poor, male, female, and immigrants alike—with a common cause and allows them to co-exist as one nation. Reception The United States Supreme Court’s decision to cite to Myrdal’s book exposed it to ridicule in the South. For example, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida declared that, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, “the Supreme Court abandoned the Constitution, precedent and common sense and fortified its decision solely with the writings of Gunner Myrdal, a Scandinavian sociologist. What he knew about constitutional law we are not told nor have we been able to learn.” American Marxist historian Herbert Aptheker wrote a booklet titled The Negro People in America: A Critique of Gunnar Myrdal’s “An American Dilemma” arguing the work contained "numerous and serious misstatements of fact" and was "based upon a fallacious philosophic concept." In a 1944 review, political scientist Harold F. Gosnell described Myrdal's book as "an outstanding social science treatise, brilliant, stimulating, and provocative." Author Mark Tushnet captured in his book the NAACP's comment that the information in the book isn't something new for the African American communities while acknowledging what the country needed is public and legal discourse for the social inequality and racial discrimination cases. See also "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" References Further reading Herbert Aptheker, The Negro People in America: A Critique of Gunnar Myrdal's "An American Dilemma." New York: International Publishers, 1946. Ralph Ellison. "An American Dilemma: A Review" (1944) Eric Foner and John A. Garraty. The Reader's Companion to American History, Houghton Mifflin Company. Nikhil Pal Singh, Black is a country: race and the unfinished struggle for democracy (2004) An American Dilemma at The Internet Archive 1944 non-fiction books American non-fiction books Sociology books Politics and race in the United States Books about African-American history Harper & Brothers books Race in the United States Anti-black racism in the United States Andrew Carnegie Books about the United States written by foreigners