James W. Loewen | Academic Influence

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According to Wikipedia, James William Loewen was an American sociologist, historian, and author. He was best known for his 1995 book, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. Early life Loewen was born in Decatur, Illinois, on February 6, 1942. His father, David, was a medical director and physician from an immigrant Mennonite community; his mother, Winifred , was a librarian and teacher. Loewen was raised in Decatur, where he attended MacArthur High School and was a National Merit Scholar as a graduate in 1960.

James W. Loewen's Published Works

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Published Papers

Lies My Teacher Told Me (257)
The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White. (194)
Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History (117)
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (108)
Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong (90)
Black Men, White Cities: Race, Politics, and Migration in the United States, 1900-30, and Britain, 1948-68. (42)
The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White. (30)
White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories (27)
Teaching Race Relations from Feature Films. (20)
Racial bloc voting and political mobilization in South Carolina (13)
Social Science in the Courtroom (12)
Gender Bias in SAT Items. (12)
Introductory Sociology: Four Classroom Exercises. (8)
Sundown Towns and Counties: Racial Exclusion in the South (8)
Social Science in the Courtroom: Statistical Techniques and Research Methods for Winning Class-Action Suits (5)
Getting Gender on Their Minds: A Classroom Exercise on Sex Roles. (4)
Mississippi: conflict & change (4)
Negroes in Britain: A Study of Racial Relations in English Society. (3)
Social Science in the Courtroom: Statistical Techniques and Research Methods for Winning Class-Action Suits. (3)
We are the people : voices from the other side of American history (3)
Recent Developments in Methods Used in Vote Dilution Litigation (2)
Using Confederate Documents to Teach About Secession, Slavery, and the Origins of the Civil War (2)
Molding the Good Citizen.@@@Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. (2)
Black Image in White Vermont: The Origin, Meaning, and Abolition of Kake Walk (1)
The Truth About the First Thanksgiving (1)
Does My Town Have a Racist Past (1)
Is Segregation OK if Social Scientists Approve (1)
Introduction: Just Living (1)
Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, and Fraud in the Writing of American History (1)
A. T. Miller (1)
Getting the Civil War Right. (1)
Columbus in History and High School. (1)
Foreword: Challenging Racism, Challenging History (1)
NEGROES IN BRITAIN: A STUDY OF RACIAL RELATIONS IN ENGLISH SOCIETY. By Kenneth Little. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972. 309 pp. $13.50 (1)
Black Children, White Dreams.@@@Black and White Self-Esteem: The Urban School Child. (1)
Exhibiting Sundown Towns (0)
Levels of Political Mobilization and Racial Bloc Voting among Latinos, Anglos, and African Americans in New York City (0)
Remembering America: How We Have Told Our Past (0)
Democracy Betrayed The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy (review) (0)
Chinese Americans . By Stanford M. Lyman. New York: Random House, 1974. xiv, 213 pp. Bibliography, Index, n.p.l. (paper). (0)
One-Trial Latent Learning Followed by Frustration and “Forgetting” (0)
Foreword: A Connected Fringe (0)
By the Book. (0)
Not Aesopian Enough: A Chinese Publishing Fable (0)
Free at Last: What Really Happened When Civil Rights Came to Southern Politics.@@@Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights. (0)
The Mississippi Chinese-Between Black and White. (0)
John Cole Vodicka (0)
Social Science for a Change. (0)
School and Residential Desegregation. (0)
Book Review:Museums in Motion: An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums Edward P. Alexander (0)
The Mississippi Chinese. Between Black and White . By James W. Loewen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971. 233 pp. $10.00. (0)
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (review) (0)
Tobin Miller Shearer (0)
The Teaching American History Project: Lessons for History Educators and Historians. Ed. by Rachel G. Ragland and Kelly A. Woestman. (New York: Routledge, 2009. xviii, 333 pp. Cloth, $135.00, ISBN 978-0-415-98881-0. Paper, $38.95, ISBN 978-0-415-98882-7.) (0)
South Carolina (0)
Action and Sociology (0)

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