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    Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
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    Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

    Written by James W. Loewen

    Narrated by Norman Dietz

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    Professor emeritus at the University of Vermont, James W. Loewen won the National Book Award for his New York Times best-seller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong.

    Sundown Towns examines thousands of all-white American towns that were and still are-- in some instances--racially exclusive by design.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books Audio
    Release dateApr 4, 2008
    ISBN9781436117272
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    James W. Loewen

    James W. Loewen (1942–2021) was author of Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, and Mississippi: Conflict and Change. He was also professor emeritus at the University of Vermont.

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    • 5/5
      A great presentation of well-researched history, an eye-opening testimony of the deliberate racism of the United States.
    • 5/5
      Racism in America
    • 4/5
      This book is a fairly large and educational work on the widespread nature of "sundown towns" as recently as 1970 with many still in existence today. Basically a sundown town (or neighborhood, suburb, county, state) is a place that excludes black people from being able to live there usually by posting signs that say "Nigger Don't Let the Sun Go Down on You in ___." Blacks may be allowed to shop there or drive through during the day, but if they were found within city limits after dark, the results have often been fatal. This book also serves to eliminate the myth that the South is the main antagonist towards blacks, because the vast majority of sundown towns were actually in the North and West. This book was written primarily because it's a part of history that most Americans know nothing about...it's something that towns have tried to keep secret and are perhaps ashamed of today. However, it's an important topic to research because the persistence of many of these sundown areas help to explain why many blacks still do not live in certain parts of the country while pretty much every other minority group is fairly evenly spread out. Since blacks were often kept out of suburbs, this added an even bigger element of racism because they were then denied access to better schools. I liked this book because I'm already interested in this subject. It reads like an interesting textbook, but parts can be fairly statistics-heavy or just show example after example of instances...which I think is important to emphasize what a big problem this has been in our country, but doesn't always make for the smoothest read.
    • 5/5
      Damn. Just damn. The epic nature of this nonfiction narrative hits every element of racism on a macro level. Phenomenal and dreadful.