Sundown Towns

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A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

James W. Loewen

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The New Press
06 November 2018

Social services & welfare, criminology

""Powerful and important . . . an instant classic."" The Washington Post Book World

, reissued with a new preface by the author

In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of ""sundown towns""-almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that blacks weren't welcome-that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South.

Written with Loewen's trademark honesty and thoroughness, Sundown Towns won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Booklist, and launched a nationwide online effort to track down and catalog sundown towns across America.

In a new preface, Loewen puts this history in the context of current controversies around white supremacy and the Black Lives Matter movement. He revisits sundown towns and finds the number way down, but with notable exceptions in exclusive all-white suburbs such as Kenilworth, Illinois, which as of 2010 had not a single black household. And, although many former sundown towns are now integrated, they often face ""second-generation sundown town issues,"" such as in Ferguson, Missouri, a former sundown town that is now majority black, but with a majority-white police force.

By: James W. Loewen
Imprint: The New Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm,
ISBN: 9781620974681
ISBN 10: 1620974681
Pages: 592
Publication Date: 06 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

James W. Loewenhas won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies, and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award. He is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, DC.

Reviews for Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

Praise for Sundown Towns: Powerful and important . . . an instant classic. -The Washington Post Book World Amazing. -The Daily Kos Methodically upends many of white America's preconceived notions about race. -The Chicago Reader The first comprehensive history of sundown towns ever written . . . sure to become a landmark in several fields. -Publishers Weekly (starred review) Just when you thought you'd learned everything there was to know about the sordid history of racism in the United States and its lingering impact on the nation, along comes this amazing volume, which reminds us all of just how deep the well of racial exclusion and white supremacy runs. -Tim Wise, author of White Like Me