Myrdal attributed black inequality partly to black cultural pathology requiring assimilation

Evidence

While there was no doubt that whites must repudiate racial prejudice (Myrdal did not use the term “racism”), blacks had also to rise to the occasion and demonstrate their worthiness. Indeed Myrdal, drawing on the work of E. Franklin Frazier (as Daniel Patrick Moynihan was to do 20 years later), suggested that there was a “pathological” aspect to black culture which only full assimilation could cure. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 47

Categorization

• XREF: Connects genealogically to the Moynihan Report and to the vault’s existing claims about assimilationist/ethnicity approaches to race the racial-formation framework critiques. — connects to: Myrdal’s landmark study enshrined cultural assimilation as a racist solution despite his antiracist intent — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 903; Assimilationist social science blamed Black culture and family for racial inequality. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 950; Culturalist readings of race can erase structural and cultural inequality claims — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 131 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Myrdal’s landmark study enshrined cultural assimilation as a racist solution despite his antiracist intent — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 903; Assimilationist social science blamed Black culture and family for racial inequality. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 950; Culturalist readings of race can erase structural and cultural inequality claims — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 131 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Myrdal’s landmark study enshrined cultural assimilation as a racist solution despite his antiracist intent #expands (0.95) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 903