What were the pros and cons of the American Dilemma?

Answer 1

The American Dilemma was a study conducted by a Swedish economist in 1938 that sought to find out the reasons for the gap between African Americans' reality and the American principle of equality. On the positive side, The American Dilemma was key to striking down segregation in Brown v. Board of Education which outlawed school segregation in 1954. However, on the negative side, the study expressed optimism that racism would end eventually. The study was conducted at a time before the Great Migration had relocated most blacks to the North, and didn't take northern racism against blacks into consideration.