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An American Dilemma of the 21st Century? Un dilemme américain du XXIe siècle? Un Dilema Americano para el Siglo XXI?

An American Dilemma of the 21st Century? Un dilemme américain du XXIe siècle? Un Dilema Americano... Immanuel Wallerstein An American Dilemma of the 21st Century? Abstracts In 1941, Henry Luce proclaimed the twentieth century the American Century. And in 1944, Gunnar Myrdal wrote of the American dilemma, the discrepancy between its values and the actual treatment of Black Americans. In the post-1945 period, the need of a hegemonic United States to project a positive world image led to major improvements in the position of Black Americans – an improvement however primarily for educated elites and much less for the Black working-class strata. In the period since 1970, U.S. power has been on the decline, which has caused increased internal tensions in the U.S. This intersects with the structural crisis of the world-system, manifesting itself as an increasingly chaotic world in which there is taking place a world political struggle between the forces of the spirit of Davos and the forces of the spirit of Porto Alegre over the nature of the new world-system that will be constructed. One major question is how the U.S. will react to its decline, the new American dilemma, and how that will affect its ability to deal with the old (Myrdal) American dilemma. Un Dilema Americano para el Siglo http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Societies Without Borders Brill

An American Dilemma of the 21st Century? Un dilemme américain du XXIe siècle? Un Dilema Americano para el Siglo XXI?

Societies Without Borders , Volume 1 (1): 7 – Jan 1, 2006

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Brill
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© 2006 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1871-8868
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1872-1915
DOI
10.1163/187219106777304340
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Immanuel Wallerstein An American Dilemma of the 21st Century? Abstracts In 1941, Henry Luce proclaimed the twentieth century the American Century. And in 1944, Gunnar Myrdal wrote of the American dilemma, the discrepancy between its values and the actual treatment of Black Americans. In the post-1945 period, the need of a hegemonic United States to project a positive world image led to major improvements in the position of Black Americans – an improvement however primarily for educated elites and much less for the Black working-class strata. In the period since 1970, U.S. power has been on the decline, which has caused increased internal tensions in the U.S. This intersects with the structural crisis of the world-system, manifesting itself as an increasingly chaotic world in which there is taking place a world political struggle between the forces of the spirit of Davos and the forces of the spirit of Porto Alegre over the nature of the new world-system that will be constructed. One major question is how the U.S. will react to its decline, the new American dilemma, and how that will affect its ability to deal with the old (Myrdal) American dilemma. Un Dilema Americano para el Siglo

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Published: Jan 1, 2006

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