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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (original 2005; udgave 2018)

af James W. Loewen (Forfatter)

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Loewen (emeritus, sociology, U. of Vermont) exposes the history and persistence of "sundown towns," so-named for the signs often found at their corporate limits warning African Americans and other minorities not to be found in the town after dusk. He historically situates the rise of the sundown town movement in the years following the Civil War; describes the mechanisms of violence, threats, law, and policy that were used to force minorities out of Northern and Western towns into the big cities; and charts the continued existence of such communities. In considering the sociology of sundown towns he investigates the causes that underlie the existence of sundown towns and discusses why the phenomena has remained largely hidden. The social costs of sundown towns on whites, blacks, and the social system are then detailed and recommendations for fixing this blight on the body politic are proffered. Includes information on Anna, (Illinois), anti Semitism, Appalachian region, Appleton (Wisconsin), Arkansas, Asian Americans, Atlanta (Georgia), Berwyn (Illinois), Beverly Hills (California), black Americans, Boley (Oklahoma), Brown v. Board of Education, George W. Bush, Buchanan v. Warley, Cairo (Illinois), California, Chicago (Illinois), Chinese Americans, Cicero (Illinois), Corbin (Kentucky), Cullman (Alabama), Darien (Connecticut), Dearborn (Michigan), Democratic Party, Detroit (Michigan), Du Quoin (Illinois), economic factors, Edina (Minnesota), educational aspects, Effingham (Illinois), employment, Florida, Fond du Lac (Wisconsin), Forsyth County (Georgia), Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, Gainesville (Florida), Glendale (California), Granite City (Illinois), Great Migration, Great Retreat, Greenwich (Connecticut), Grosse Pointe (Michigan), Harrison (Arkansas), Highland Park (Texas), Idaho, Illinois, immigration, Indiana, Jews, Jonesboro (Illinois), Kenilworth (Illinois), Ku Klux Klan, legal aspects, Long Island (New York), Los Angeles (California), lynchings, Martinsville (Indiana), Medford (Oregon), Mississippi, Missouri, Native Americans, New York, Norman (Oklahoma), Oak Park (Illinois), Ohio, Ocoee (Florida), Orlando (Florida), Owosso (Michigan), Pana (Illinois), Pierce City (Missouri), Pinckneyville (Illinois), political factors, racial stereotypes, real estate aspects, Republican Party, Rosewood (Florida), segregation, Sheridan (Arkansas), signs in sundown towns, social class factors, Jones v. Mayer, Milliken v. Bradley, Plessy v. Ferguson, Shelley v. Kraemer, Valparaiso (Indiana), voting rights, Warren (Michigan), Washington, D.C., West Frankfort (Illinois), white Americans, Wisconsin, Wyandotte (Michigan), Zeigler (Illinois), etc.… (mere)
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Titel:Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
Forfattere:James W. Loewen (Forfatter)
Info:The New Press (2018), 592 pages
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Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism af James W. Loewen (2005)

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(2005)NF. Thought provoking book about the existence since the turn of the century of towns that exclude minorities, especially African-Americans. This is done by violence, government policy, rational acts by their citizens for irrational reasons. Good read on a sociological subject.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
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  autumnesf | Feb 5, 2023 |
This revelatory, well-documented book should be read by every White American. I always considered myself aware of racial issues, but this book made me realize that many things I'd taken for granted as "just the way things are" were the result of racism and eliminationism. I wish I could require everyone protesting the teaching of "Critical Race Theory" to read it.

It's sometimes a little dense and academic, but if you push through those sections, the narrative is vivid and horrifying. I warn you that many of the photos are very difficult to look at.

We will never begin to reconcile the racial issues in the United States until we are willing to confront the past honestly and fully. ( )
1 stem jmeisen | Nov 3, 2021 |
Scholarly works can be difficult to write in a way that appeals to non-academic readers. This one does a good job of engaging and enraging those who are unaware that locales that banned Black people ("Don't let the sun go down on you in this town") were mostly Midwestern rather than Southern. The good professor starts by going back to the brief progressive period (1865 - 1889), when the Confederacy was reviled and Black people served in legislatures, and the beginning of "The Nadir" and "The Great Retreat" (1890 - 1940), when Black people were forced from integrated small towns into large cities and into non-citizenship. It's a fraught and dangerous period, filled with white riots, murders, lynchings, and burning of homes. It's also when the worship of the Confederacy, "the glorious cause", revived and remains a major dividing line, through Nixon's "Southern Strategy" and Trump's blatant support of white supremacy.

Quotes: "After 1890, most whites no longer viewed slavery and racism as the problem. Now Black people themselves were seen as the problem, by white northerners as well as southerners."

"Black people increasingly lived in separate neighborhoods, and whites no longer had the benefit of knowing them individually, so whites fell back into stereotypical racist thinking.

"From its inception, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) set itself up as the protector of all-white neighborhoods and as the most important single cause of residential segregation. And every town or community planned by a single developer or owner between 1890 - 1960 kept out Black people from its beginnings. "

"White racism therefore became first and foremost a rationale for African slavery. Even after it ended, slavery was responsible for the continuing stigmatization of Black Americans."

"Living in an all-white community leads many residents to defend living in an all-white community. Residents of elite sundown suburbs are free to infer that Black people are inferior, which explains their absence. Stereotypes imply that as soon as Black people "really apply themselves", our racial problems will be fixed."

"White misbehavior, not alleged Black inferiority, is the source of America's racial problem." ( )
1 stem froxgirl | Sep 25, 2020 |
James Loewen is the well-known author of Lies My Teacher Told Me which is an excellent primer on the portions of history that aren’t really covered in school. Sundown Towns is his treatment of the practice of counties, towns, and suburbs that intentionally excluded blacks and other non-whites from living within their boundaries. Such towns popularly had signs at the city limits that stated things like “No n***ers after sundown!”, hence the term.

I listened to the audio version of the book. I’ve found that in audio form, repetition in a book is really drilled into my brain. In a work of fiction, repeated story tics become extremely apparent and are distracting. In a book like Sundown Towns the sheer number of examples of sundown practices is a flood in my brain. I didn’t think about much else for the duration.

And Loewen’s examples in the book alone become a litany. The conception I, a suburban-educated middle-aged white guy, had was that they were ugly but not particularly common. The best examples Loewen has litter Illinois and Indiana to the point that non-exclusionary towns were in the minority in those states. In addition, descriptions of the practices themselves make me think that the North’s sundown towns were far more racist than the South’s Jim Crow laws. That’s an outside assessment by a white dude after reading this book, so I don’t think it holds a lot of weight. But I think it’s clear that us northerners can’t be smug about the South being the racist part of the country, which I often have been. ( )
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After 1890, most whites no longer viewed slavery and racism as the problem. Now Black people themselves were seen as the problem, by white northerners as well as southerners.
Black people increasingly lived in separate neighborhoods, and whites no longer had the benefit of knowing them individually, so whites fell back into stereotypical racist thinking.
From its inception, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) set itself up as the protector of all-white neighborhoods and as the most important single cause of residential segregation. And every town or community planned by a single developer or owner between 1890–1960 kept out Black people from its beginnings.
White racism therefore became first and foremost a rationale for African slavery. Even after it ended, slavery was responsible for the continuing stigmatization of Black Americans.
Living in an all-white community leads many residents to defend living in an all-white community. Residents of elite sundown suburbs are free to infer that Black people are inferior, which explains their absence. Stereotypes imply that as soon as Black people "really apply themselves", our racial problems will be fixed.
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Loewen (emeritus, sociology, U. of Vermont) exposes the history and persistence of "sundown towns," so-named for the signs often found at their corporate limits warning African Americans and other minorities not to be found in the town after dusk. He historically situates the rise of the sundown town movement in the years following the Civil War; describes the mechanisms of violence, threats, law, and policy that were used to force minorities out of Northern and Western towns into the big cities; and charts the continued existence of such communities. In considering the sociology of sundown towns he investigates the causes that underlie the existence of sundown towns and discusses why the phenomena has remained largely hidden. The social costs of sundown towns on whites, blacks, and the social system are then detailed and recommendations for fixing this blight on the body politic are proffered. Includes information on Anna, (Illinois), anti Semitism, Appalachian region, Appleton (Wisconsin), Arkansas, Asian Americans, Atlanta (Georgia), Berwyn (Illinois), Beverly Hills (California), black Americans, Boley (Oklahoma), Brown v. Board of Education, George W. Bush, Buchanan v. Warley, Cairo (Illinois), California, Chicago (Illinois), Chinese Americans, Cicero (Illinois), Corbin (Kentucky), Cullman (Alabama), Darien (Connecticut), Dearborn (Michigan), Democratic Party, Detroit (Michigan), Du Quoin (Illinois), economic factors, Edina (Minnesota), educational aspects, Effingham (Illinois), employment, Florida, Fond du Lac (Wisconsin), Forsyth County (Georgia), Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, Gainesville (Florida), Glendale (California), Granite City (Illinois), Great Migration, Great Retreat, Greenwich (Connecticut), Grosse Pointe (Michigan), Harrison (Arkansas), Highland Park (Texas), Idaho, Illinois, immigration, Indiana, Jews, Jonesboro (Illinois), Kenilworth (Illinois), Ku Klux Klan, legal aspects, Long Island (New York), Los Angeles (California), lynchings, Martinsville (Indiana), Medford (Oregon), Mississippi, Missouri, Native Americans, New York, Norman (Oklahoma), Oak Park (Illinois), Ohio, Ocoee (Florida), Orlando (Florida), Owosso (Michigan), Pana (Illinois), Pierce City (Missouri), Pinckneyville (Illinois), political factors, racial stereotypes, real estate aspects, Republican Party, Rosewood (Florida), segregation, Sheridan (Arkansas), signs in sundown towns, social class factors, Jones v. Mayer, Milliken v. Bradley, Plessy v. Ferguson, Shelley v. Kraemer, Valparaiso (Indiana), voting rights, Warren (Michigan), Washington, D.C., West Frankfort (Illinois), white Americans, Wisconsin, Wyandotte (Michigan), Zeigler (Illinois), etc.

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