![]() 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. These towns used everything from legal formalities to violence to create homogenous Caucasian communities-and their existence has gone unexamined until now. Genevieve,Missouri North Platte, Nebraska Or-egon City, Oregon and many others. ![]() ![]() 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. Other towns thatdrove out their black populations vio-lently include Myakka City, Florida Spruce Pine, North Carolina Wehrum,Pennsylvania Ravenna, Kentucky Greensburg, Indiana St. ![]() Loewen, author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. Loewen, the author of Sundown Towns, has an entire website dedicated to learning and teaching the oft-hidden and rewritten history of many American. In this groundbreaking work, bestselling sociologist 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. Bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, James W. ![]()
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