Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

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Sales of S&S paperback edition: The New Press has taken paperback rights back from S&S, who sold over fifteen thousand copies.

New Preface: Updates the conversation in light of the Trump presidency and the re-remembering of slavery and the civil war that the national reckoning with white supremacy has generated.

Renewed relevance: Complements the debate over confederate monuments and Bryan Stevensons call for better efforts to memorialize accurately African American history.

Website:sundown.tugaloo.edu.

Awards:Sundown Towns is the recipient of the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award

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Praise for Sundown Towns:
"Powerful and important . . . an instant classic."
The Washington Post Book World

Amazing.
The Daily Kos

Methodically upends many of white America's preconceived notions about race.
The Chicago Reader

The first comprehensive history of sundown towns ever written . . . sure to become a landmark in several fields.
Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Just when you thought you'd learned everything there was to know about the sordid history of racism in the United States and its lingering impact on the nation, along comes this amazing volume, which reminds us all of just how deep the well of racial exclusion and white supremacy runs.
Tim Wise, author of White Like Me

Author Bio

James W. Loewenhas 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.