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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.550973091732
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Touchstone
Manufacturer: Touchstone
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 576
Publication Date: October 03, 2006
Publisher: Touchstone
Sales Rank: 651471
Studio: Touchstone
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Product Description:
No blacks allowed, especially after dark. This was the unwritten rule in a 'sundown' town. In his trademark revelatory style, bestselling author James W. Loewen explores one of America's best-kept secrets as he unearths the making of sundown towns and discloses the fact that many white neighborhoods and suburbs are the result of years of racism and segregation. Anna, Illinois; Darien, Connecticut; and Cedar Key, Florida, are just a few examples of the thousands of all-white towns established between 1890 and 1968, many of which still exist today. White residents of these towns used any means possible -- including the law, harassment, race riots, and even murder -- to keep African Americans and other minority groups out.
Powerful and unprecedented, Sundown Towns tells the story of how these towns came into existence, what maintains them, and what to do about them. It also deepens our understanding of the role racism has played and continues to play in our society.
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Rating: - A recent conversation with Dr. Loewen
We recently had Dr. Loewen as a guest for an online meeting of the Everyday Democracy Book Club. It was interesting to hear whether he feels his book has made much of a difference (he doesn't, yet) and what needs to happen to overcome the legacy of Sundown Towns. Here's his prescription and a link to the conversation.
http://democracyspace.typepad.com/democracyspaceorg/2008/07/three-steps-tow.html
Rating:  - There are Better Books Out There
I tried very hard to get into this book, but had to put it down after 50 pages or so.I appreciate the scholarship, but Loewen's book reads like a MA or PhD thesis.Very dry.
The author spends inordinate amounts of ink explaining how he's going to break down the topic of whites-only towns.If I had a dollar for every time he uses the term "sundown town" in just 50 pages, I could fill up my gas tank for the next six months.I get it!The book's about Sundown Towns!You don't have ... Read More
Rating:  - Now I Understand.
First off, thank you to Professor Loewen for his painstaking research. Biased or not he backs up his information and makes you think as long as your mind is open and willing to absorb.
I'm an African-American, 37, grew up in a all-black neighborhood, but it wasn't always that way. I remember and have pictures of when I was 4 or 5, my next door neighbors were white and at least half of my block had white families. My brother and sister are 9 and 10 years older than me and they ... Read More
Rating:  - I grew up in a "Sundown Town"
I am African American and I grew up in one of the towns in the northeast mentioned in the book (I didn't read the book, my sister told me about it, she said it was very good so that's where my rating comes from.)This town was EXTREMELY RACIST.My siblings and I were the only African American kids in the local school and we went through hell.We were called "nigger" so many times that we lost count.I heard that this town "opened up" in the 1980's, but I still cannot bring myself to go back there. ... Read More
Rating: - Could have been so much better.
After the first one hundred pages, I was ready to give this five stars.I have lived or worked in most of the towns mentioned in Southern Illinois, and the book correctly presents a great deal of information.On the other hand, some of the oral histories were quite incorrect.Eldorado has not had a "sundown sign" since 1960 at least, if ever.But the author claims it had such a sign into the 1980's.The mayor of Benton, Illinois remarks were taken out of context and totally misrepresented her, and ... Read More
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