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

  The students claimed they'd watched the performance.  They hadn't.  They'd lied. 
  

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  Jun 15, 2017
  

  My Cheating Memoirs #2: Freud's Four Stages of Sexuality in Mississippi

  by Jim Loewen

  You remember the 4 stages, right?  Oil, annual, psychosexual, and nonmanual.
  

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  Jun 9, 2017
  

  My Cheating Memoirs #1: Harvard, 1966

  by Jim Loewen

  The first in a series of droll reminiscences.
  

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  May 9, 2017
  

  Slandering Native Americans this Spring

  by Jim Loewen

  Once again Native Americans are being made to look like fools for supposedly selling Manhattan for $24. It's outrageous.
  

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  May 4, 2017
  

  "Why Was There the Civil War?" Here’s Your Answer.

  by Jim Loewen

  Getting the Civil War wrong was part of the program of white supremacy during the Nadir. Today, getting it right is not just Trump’s responsibility — it’s all of ours.
  

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  Mar 22, 2017
  

  Rockville’s Confederate Monument Belongs at White’s Ferry

  by Jim Loewen

  The monument was false to Maryland's history. 
  

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  Feb 28, 2017
  

  James Loewen discusses Confederate monuments and memorials

  by Jim Loewen

  “Confederate Monuments: Modest Proposals” was part of the American Civil War Museum’s 2017 annual symposium, “Lightning Rods of Controversy: Civil War Monuments Past, Present, and Future.”
  

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  Feb 16, 2017
  

  It's Time for a Shadow Cabinet

  by Jim Loewen

  The United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries have Shadow Cabinets. We need one. Now.
  

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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

  We still have to win, in 2017, the victories won in Mississippi more than 40 years ago.
  

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  Nov 7, 2016
  

  Should Students Call Professors by Their First Name?

  by Jim Loewen

  How race affects even this decision.
  

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  Aug 30, 2016
  

  Lessons from Mississippi for Police in Ferguson, Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee …

  by Jim Loewen

  Color-blind policing doesn’t work.
  

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  Jul 18, 2016
  

  Future Shock and History

  by Jim Loewen

  From the late Alvin Toffler historians can learn a lesson:  Their work should take the future into account. 
  

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  Jun 20, 2016
  

  Orlando Was Not “The Worst Mass Shooting in U.S. History”

  by Jim Loewen

  It is white history to think for a moment that it is.
  

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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

  They may be out of sight.  They shouldn't be out of mind.  A case in point.
  

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  May 10, 2016
  

  Ten Questions for Yale President Peter Salovey

  by Jim Loewen

  Every year that it retains the name Calhoun College, Yale declares on its campus that John C. Calhoun was a hero worthy of the honor of having a building named for him.
  

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  Feb 25, 2016
  

  Lies the Neo-Confederates Told Me

  by Jim Loewen

  He who steals my book title for this travesty besmirches my good name.
  

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  Jan 29, 2016
  

  Reconstruction: The Sixth Myth

  by Jim Loewen

  This is the Reconstruction myth the Washington Post wouldn't let me debunk on the grounds no one believed it. Then Hillary showed she did!
  

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  Jan 7, 2016
  

  The Stethoscope as Synecdoche

  by Jim Loewen

  The real purpose behind that celebrated shiny instrument doctors wear around their necks like a talisman.
  

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  Dec 8, 2015
  

  BLM and Me

  by Jim Loewen

  An encounter at airport screening provides a lesson for us all about what the Black Lives Matter movement means. 
  

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  Nov 23, 2015
  

  Once More, A Comic Strip Imitates (My) Life

  by Jim Loewen

  Another "Pearls Before Swine" as documentary.