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. From Publishers WeeklyĪccording to bestselling sociologist Loewen (Lies My Teacher Told Me), "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. 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. 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. 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. Loewen, author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America.
In this groundbreaking work, bestselling sociologist James W. Loewen Publisher: New Press, Touchstone Publication Dates: 2005, Featured Book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racismīy James W.
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