In a new preface, Loewen puts this history in the context of current controversies around white supremacy and the Black Lives Matter movement. 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 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. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. an instant classic.' -The Washington Post Book World The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Admirably thorough and extensively footnoted, Loewen's investigation may put off some general readers with its density and statistical detail, but the stories he recounts form a compelling corrective to the 'textbook archetype of interrupted progress.' As the first comprehensive history of sundown towns ever written, this book is sure to become a landmark in several fields and a sure bet among Loewen's many fans. The expulsion forced African-Americans into urban ghettoes and continues to have ramifications on the lives of whites, blacks and the social system at large. they did lose the right to live in town after town, county after county,' Loewen points out.

'While African Americans never lost the right to vote in the North.

Loewen's eye-opening history traces the sundown town's development and delineates the extent to which state governments and the federal government, 'openly favor white supremacy' from the 1930s through the 1960s, 'helped to create and maintain all-white communities' through their lending and insuring policies. Located mostly outside the traditional South, these towns employed legal formalities, race riots, policemen, bricks, fires and guns to produce homogeneously Caucasian communities-and some of them continue such unsavory practices to this day. ), 'something significant has been left out of the broad history of race in America as it is usually taught,' namely the establishment between 18 of thousands of 'sundown towns' that systematically excluded African-Americans from living within their borders. According to bestselling sociologist Loewen ( Lies My Teacher Told Me

Sundown Towns by James W. Loewen