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What are 'sundown towns'? Historically all-white towns in America see renewed scrutiny thanks to 'Lovecraft Country'
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It’s a term that seems to be popping up everywhere on social media, especially since the release of Jordan Peele’s HBO series Lovecraft Country, based on a 2016 novel of the same name by Matt Ruff but inspired by a 2005 book called Sundown Towns by sociologist James Loewen. In Peele’s onscreen depiction, the main characters are “pulled over by a police officer who informs them they are in a ‘sundown county’ and then threatens to lynch them unless they can leave the county before sundown.”
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Jonathan Majors stars in the new HBO series, "Lovecraft Country," which has been prompting discussions about so-called sundown towns in the U.S. (Mary Mathis for the Washington Post via Getty Images)
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What are 'sundown towns'? Historically all-white towns in America see renewed scrutiny thanks to 'Lovecraft Country'
What are 'sundown towns'? Historically all-white towns in America see renewed scrutiny thanks to 'Lovecraft Country'
“The first thing you need to know about sundown towns, and what 'Lovecraft Country' gets right, is it’s not a Southern phenomenon,” James Loewen tells Yahoo Life. “They’re all over the place.”
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Jonathan Majors stars in the new HBO series, "Lovecraft Country," which has been prompting discussions about so-called sundown towns in the U.S. (Mary Mathis for the Washington Post via Getty Images)
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