{"product_id":"sundown-towns-a-hidden-dimension-of-american-racism-9781565848870","title":"Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension Of American Racism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe explosive story of racial exclusion in the north  from the American Book Award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me  As American as apple pie:  Most suburbs in the United States were originally sundown towns.  As part of the deepening racism that swept through the United States after 1890  town after town outside the traditional South became intentionally all-white  evicting their black populations with tactics that ranged from intimidation to outright violence.  From Myakka City  Florida  to Kennewick  Washington  the nation is dotted with thousands of all-white towns that are (or were until recently) all-white on purpose. Sundown towns can be found in almost every state.  \"Dont let the sun go down on you in this town.\" We equate these words with the Jim Crow South but  in a sweeping analysis of American residential patterns  award-winning and bestselling author James W. Loewen demonstrates that strict racial exclusion was the norm in American towns and villages from sea to shining sea for much of the twentieth century.  Weaving history  personal narrative  and hard-nosed analysis  Loewen shows that the sundown town wasand isan American institution with a powerful and disturbing history of its own  told here for the first time. In Michigan  Indiana  Ohio  Illinois  Missouri  Pennsylvania  and elsewhere  sundown towns were created in waves of violence in the early decades of the twentieth century  and then maintained well into the contemporary era.  Sundown Towns redraws the map of race relations  extending the lines of racial oppression through the backyard of millions of Americansand lobbing an intellectual hand grenade into the debates over race and racism today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45280100057141,"sku":"ByrdShop_156584887X","price":34.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781565848870.jpg?v=1780620861","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sundown-towns-a-hidden-dimension-of-american-racism-9781565848870","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}