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March, 2007
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Sundown Towns
A Hidden Dimension of American Racism

By James Loewen
(New York: The New Press, 2005. Pp. x, 562. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $29.95.)

Racism and its persistence in American culture have been recurring themes in American literature, film, and television. In recent years, journalists and historians have written extensively of racial conflict and tension in every period of American history. Recent works such as David Blight's masterful Race and Reunion (2001) and Scott Malcomson's One Drop of Blood (2000), to name two, have contributed to a reexamination of the origins and development of racism as a major element in our national story. 1
      Sundown Towns is an important contribution to this examination of the problem of racism as well as to the explanation of its persistence in present-day America. Author James Loewen, author of award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me (1996), a critical examination of American history texts, and the more recent Lies Across America (1999), a look at history as distorted by public monuments and historic markers, has produced a monumental study of the "hidden history" of racism. . . .
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