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Themes, FromJamesLoewen'sSundownTowns:AHiddenDimensionofAmericanRacism()AddeddateIdentifierhow-sundown-towns-wereSundown townsarecommunitiesthatexcludedAfricanAmericans(orsometimesChineseAmericans,JewishAmericansorotherminorities)byforce,law,orcustom.Some townsarestillallwhiteonpurposeInaprovocative,sweepinganalysisofAmericanresidentialpatterns,Loewenuncoversthethousandsof"sundowntowns" almostexclusivelywhitetownswhereitwasanunspokenrulethatblacksweren'twelcome thatcroppedupthroughoutthetwentiethcentury,mostofthem locatedoutsideoftheSouthIn,anthropologistJohnCoggeshallwroteaboutthirteenSouthernIllinoiscommunities;mostwereprobablysundowntownswhenhe wrote;Ihaveconfirmedatleastfiveanewtheoreticalperspectivetoexplainhowthehistoryassociatedwithsundowntownscontributestocontemporary inequality,namelylarge-scalesegregationToassessthecontemporaryimpactofsundownhistory,Iemployadatasetonplacesconnectedtosundowntownsin theeasternMidwestandcountyPaper$JamesLoewenseekstoprovidethefirstcomprehensivegeneralstudyof“sun-downtowns,”definedascommunitiesthat were(andinmanycasesremain)“allwhiteonpurpose,includingbothindependenttownsandraciallyexclusivesub-urbsofmajorcities.”RememberingJamesW. LoewenTheseontheAmericancharacterHowtoResearchandTeachAboutSundownTownsDozensofstudents,frommiddle-schoolersinOhiodoinga projectforNationalHistoryDaytogradstudentsfinishingdissertationsinArkansasandthesuburbsofLosAngeles,haveworkedonconfirmingsundowntowns SundowntownsarecommunitiesthatexcludedAfricanAmericans(orsometimesChineseAmericans,JewishAmericansorotherminorities)byforce,law,or customManysuburbanareasintheUnitedStateswereincorporatedfollowingtheestablishmentofJimCrowlawsInSundownTowns:AHiddenDimensionof AmericanRacism,JamesLoewenTimePeriodsthCenturyThisdocumentcontainsalistofoverSundownsuburbsAllsevenweresundowntownsinSouthern Illinois moststillare yettheauthorsnevermentionthatfact.takesanexhaustivelookatalong-neglectedphenomenonNorthernSundownTowns:AHidden DimensionofAmericanRacismSemanticScholarThesecommunitiesarecalled“sundowntowns”becausesomeSunGoDownOnYouIn”DOI:/choice CorpusIDSundownTowns:AHiddenSundownTownsandCounties(HistoricalandPresent)FreedownloadasPDFFilepdf),TextFiletxt)orreadonlinefor freeThemajorityofsuburbsweremadeupofallwhiteTowns,areportforthefederalgovernmentNewYork:Touchstone,;NewPress,PpCloth$Paper$ JamesLoewenseekstoprovidethefirstcomprehensivegeneralstudyof“sun-downDocumentsthehistoryoftownsacrosstheUnitedStatesthatexcludeAfrican Americans(andotherracial/ethnicgroups)aftersundown