Sundown Towns
A Hidden Dimension of American Racism
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 Stevenson’s 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
James W. Loewen has 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.
