{"product_id":"sundown-towns-a-hidden-dimension-of-american-racism-hardcover","title":"Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames W. Loewen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePowerful and important . . . an instant classic.\u003cbr\u003e --\u003cem\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e, reissued with a new preface by the author \u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me, \u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten with Loewen's trademark honesty and thoroughness, \u003cem\u003eSundown Towns\u003c\/em\u003e won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, received starred reviews in \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, and launched a nationwide online effort to track down and catalog sundown towns across America.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames W. Loewen\u003c\/b\u003e 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. He is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 592\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.6 x 9.3 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 31, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53755425751373,"sku":"9781620974681","price":73.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/QUlPbEcramV0c0FSY0VubWxPamFCZz09.webp?v=1776718898","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/sundown-towns-a-hidden-dimension-of-american-racism-hardcover","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}