Sundown towns : a hidden dimension of American racism /
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 s...
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New York, NY :
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2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1: introduction
- The importance of sundown towns
- The nadir: incubator of sundown towns
- Pt. 2: the history of sundown towns
- The great retreat
- How sundown towns were created
- Sundown suburbs
- Pt. 3: the sociology of sundown towns
- Underlying causes
- Catalysts and origin myths
- Hidden in plain view: knowing and not knowing about sundown towns
- Pt. 4: sundown towns in operation
- Enforcement
- Exceptions to the sundown rule
- Pt. 5: 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
- Pt. 6: the present and future of sundown towns
- Sundown towns today
- The remedy: integrated neighborhoods and towns.