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A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
Touchstone
October 2006
On Sale: October 3, 2006
576 pages ISBN: 0743294483 EAN: 9780743294485 Kindle: B005V2DQJE Paperback / e-Book
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Non-Fiction History
Bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W.
Loewen, exposes the secret communities and hotbeds of racial
injustice that sprung up throughout the twentieth century
unnoticed, forcing us to reexamine race relations in the
United States. In this groundbreaking work, bestselling sociologist James
W. Loewen, author of the national 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 could not live there—that
cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them
located outside of the South. These towns used everything
from legal formalities to violence to create homogenous
Caucasian communities—and their existence has gone
unexamined until now. For the first time, Loewen takes a
long, hard look at the history, sociology, and continued
existence of these towns, contributing an essential new
chapter to the study of American race relations. Sundown Towns combines personal narrative, history, and
analysis to create a readable picture of this previously
unknown American institution all written with Loewen’s
trademark honesty and thoroughness.
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