Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism - James W. Loewen

Loewen, James W.: - James W. Loewen is the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me , Lies Across America , Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Columbus , and Sundown Towns , all published by The New Press. He also wrote Teaching What Really Happened and edited The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader . He has won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and the Spirit of America Award from the National Council for the Social Studies. In 2012, the American Sociological Association gave him its Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award; he is the only white person to win this honor. Loewen is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Vermont and lives in Washington, D.C.