{"product_id":"9781620974346","title":"Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e, reissued with a new preface by the author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller \u003cem\u003eLies My Teacher Told Me\u003c\/em\u003e, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with Loewen’s trademark honesty and thoroughness, \u003cem\u003eSundown Towns\u003c\/em\u003e won the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, received starred reviews in \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e, and launched a nationwide online effort to track down and catalog sundown towns across America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis brand new edition includes a new preface by the author that puts this history in the context of current controversies around Civil War memorials, white supremacy, and the Black Lives Matter movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036834480368,"sku":"9781620974346","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781620974346_p0.jpg?v=1769904888","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781620974346","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}