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In a provocative, sweeping analysis of American residential patterns, Loewen uncovers the thousands of “sundown towns” - almost exclusively white towns where it was an unspoken rule that blacks weren’t welcome - that cropped up throughout the twentieth century, most of them located outside of the South. Loewen, author of the classic bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, brings to light decades of hidden racial exclusion in America. In this groundbreaking work, sociologist James W. The award-winning look at an ugly aspect of American racism by the bestselling author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, reissued with a new preface by the author

We used a red flag icon to mark towns “of special interest” identified by the researchers.“Powerful and important… an instant classic.” I chose a relatively muted base color palette inspired by historical books and then highlighted the data with bold colors, starting with various grays and eventually settling on shades of red to black, which stood out clearly on the map style and website. Sam's vision was a great match with what we wanted in a map.” - Stephen Berrey, Associate Professor of American Culture and History, University of Michigan Co-design decisionsįor the visual design of the map, I was inspired to use a style that conveyed the somberness of the data subject as well as the academic research of the larger project. We had been discussing ways to create a new map that would allow additional ways to interpret the research. ‍ “We had long been aware of the limits of exploring the sundown town research via lists of towns in each state. Thanks to a streamlined, live API endpoint and Mapbox GL JS’ addSource functionality, the interaction is snappy and the map is quick to load, even when displaying all the location points at once. I added layer filtering functionality to help users tailor what data to view. The sundown towns team figured out a way to serve the database records through an API that I could add as a data layer on the new map. The foundation of any map project is data. With help from his team of volunteers who were building a new version of the database and website, I got to work. Loewen was excited to accept as it turns out it had been a longtime goal to add a more full-featured map to the site. Loewen and volunteered to build a new map for the project, as a Mapbox Community project.