At more than 1,500 pages in length Gunnar Myrdal’s  “An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy,” remains a foundational text on issues of race, politics, and power in the US. Published in 1944 by Swedish  economist, Gunnar Myrdal, the study was commissioned and supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York who believed that the European outsider could produce a more “unbiased” analysis. This choice by Carnegie philanthropists has shaped the study of race in America for more than 7 decades. A new book from Maribel Morey, “White Philanthropy: Carnegie Corporation’sAn American Dilemma and the Making of a White World Order” examines this influential text and the powerful monied interests behind it. Morey is also the Founding Executive director of the Miami Institute for the Social Sciences.