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Book Review


Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. By James W. Loewen. (New York: New Press, 2005. xii, 562 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-56584-887-X.)
In a massive, well-documented study, James W. Loewen has woven demographic data, local history, and oral interviews into an account of sundown towns in the United States. Loewen exposes the pervasiveness and longevity of the towns that were, and in some cases remain, "all white on purpose" (p. 5). Sundown Towns examines the origins of racially exclusive towns, why they remain "hidden in plain view" (p. 192), and ultimately posits a few tentative steps toward remedying the large number of towns that remain "all white on purpose" today. . . .
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