Jim Loewen
James W. Loewen was a sociologist. The New Press published paperbacks of Loewen's bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me, and Sundown Towns, about places that were/are all-white on purpose.
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Jun 20, 2017
My Cheating Memoirs #3: Ladysmith Black Mambazo Plays Vermont
by Jim Loewen
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Jun 15, 2017
My Cheating Memoirs #2: Freud's Four Stages of Sexuality in Mississippi
by Jim Loewen
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Jun 9, 2017
My Cheating Memoirs #1: Harvard, 1966
by Jim Loewen
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May 9, 2017
Slandering Native Americans this Spring
by Jim Loewen
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May 4, 2017
"Why Was There the Civil War?" Here’s Your Answer.
by Jim Loewen
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Mar 22, 2017
Rockville’s Confederate Monument Belongs at White’s Ferry
by Jim Loewen
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Feb 28, 2017
James Loewen discusses Confederate monuments and memorials
by Jim Loewen
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Feb 16, 2017
It's Time for a Shadow Cabinet
by Jim Loewen
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Jan 11, 2017
How Is It Still Possible for a Jury in South Carolina to Have Just One Black Member?
by Jim Loewen
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Nov 7, 2016
Should Students Call Professors by Their First Name?
by Jim Loewen
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Aug 30, 2016
Lessons from Mississippi for Police in Ferguson, Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee …
by Jim Loewen
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Jul 18, 2016
Future Shock and History
by Jim Loewen
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Jun 20, 2016
Orlando Was Not “The Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History”
by Jim Loewen
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May 23, 2016
Tip for Journalists and Historians: When You Don't See Blacks in a Community Ask Why
by Jim Loewen
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May 10, 2016
Ten Questions for Yale President Peter Salovey
by Jim Loewen
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Feb 25, 2016
Lies the Neo-Confederates Told Me
by Jim Loewen
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Jan 29, 2016
Reconstruction: The Sixth Myth
by Jim Loewen
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Jan 7, 2016
The Stethoscope as Synecdoche
by Jim Loewen
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Dec 8, 2015
BLM and Me
by Jim Loewen
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Nov 23, 2015
Once More, A Comic Strip Imitates (My) Life
by Jim Loewen
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