xxii, 568 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, maps ; 24 cm
Note
"Originally published in the United States by The New Press, 2005"--Title page verso
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface to the 2018 edition -- Note to the reader -- Part I:introduction. The importance of sundown towns ; The nadir: incubator of sundown towns -- Part II: the history of sundown towns. The great retreat ; How sundown towns were created ; Sundown suburbs -- Part III: the sociology of sundown towns. Underlying causes ; Catalysts and origin myths ; Hidden in plain view: knowing and not knowing about sundown towns -- Part IV: sundown towns in operation. Enforcement ; Exceptions to the sundown rule -- Part V: effects of sundown towns. The effect of sundown towns on Whites ; The effect of sundown towns on Blacks ; The effect of sundown towns on the social system -- Part VI: the present and future of sundown towns. Sundown towns today ; The remedy: integrated neighborhoods and towns -- Appendix A: methodological notes on Table 1 -- Appendix B: how to confirm sundown towns.
Summary
Investigates segregation practices in the northern sections of twentieth-century America revealing how racial exclusion and oppression persisted into the contemporary era, in an account that challenges modern beliefs about race and racism.
"Sociologist James W. Loewen ... uncovers a shameful facet of twentieth-century American race relations: the thousands of towns and cities ... that excluded African Americans and other minority groups after sundown ... the sundown town was, in fact, a Northern invention created by waves of lynching and riots in nearly every state north of the Mason-Dixon Line"-- Dust jacket flap
