Sundown Towns, James W. Loewen
Sundown Towns, James W. Loewen
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Sundown Towns
A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

Author: James W. Loewen

Narrator: Norman Dietz

Unabridged: 25 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/04/2008

Synopsis

Professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, James W. Loewen has taught race relations for over 20 years. He won the National Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship for his New York Times bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Sundown Towns is a thought-provoking survey of American towns with histories of racial exclusion.

From 1999 to 2004, Professor Loewen investigated the records of thousands of towns to identify those that were all white on purpose—some of which remain so to this day. Loewen reveals that, though normally regarded as a Southern phenomenon, these so-called sundown towns were in fact abundant in the North.

In unflinching detail, Loewen traces the rise of these towns across America, chronicling their violent histories.

“James Loewen’s new book will bring shock, then indignation, then wonderment as to what we can do to justify calling ourselves a decent society.”—Howard Zinn, author

About James W. Loewen

James W. Loewen is the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus, Sundown Towns, and Lies My Teacher Told Me: Young Readers' Edition. He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. He has 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. Loewen is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, DC.

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Goodreads review by Theophilus (Theo) on September 11, 2010

I remember traveling with my family when I was very young. My mother always packed lunches for us. My father would sometimes get perrturbed when my sisters or I would not go to the restroom when he stopped for gas. Little did I know then that there were only certain places he would stop (after consu......more

Goodreads review by Vannessa on April 24, 2017

What I learned The Democratic party was the white man’s party and didn’t become everybody’s party until 1964 Nadir 1890-1940 Incubator of Sundown Towns Anna: Ain’t No Niggers Allowed NDLTSGDOY: Nigger, Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on You Boy: adult male African Americans who are less than a man NMNMNN: N......more

Goodreads review by Valerie on March 28, 2012

Ever wonder why all the poor white people live in tiny towns, while poor black people tend to live in the inner city? This book explains that phenomenon-- apparently many poor black people used to live in tiny towns as well, but they were systematically driven out by lynch mobs, housing ordinances,......more

Goodreads review by Maxwell on April 29, 2015

In 1968, my family moved from Queens to Great Neck, a suburb of NY - one of the only NY suburbs at the time that allowed black people to own houses (as a largely Jewish suburb, it accepted us, because they also had been rejected from most suburbs in NY.) So I knew very personally what happened in th......more

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