James W Loewen

Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has become one of the most important--and successful--history books of our time. Having sold nearly two million copies, the book also won an American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship and was heralded on the front page of the New York Times in the summer of 2006. For this new edition, Loewen has added a new preface that shows how inadequate...

"A graphic adaptation of the bestselling book about what most American history textbooks get wrong"--

Investigates segregation practices in the northern sections of twentieth-century America revealing how racial exclusion and oppression persisted into the contemporary era, in an account that challenges modern beliefs about race and racism. "Sociologist James W. Loewen ... uncovers a shameful facet of twentieth-century American race relations: the thousands of towns and cities ... that excluded African Americans and other minority groups after sundown...