{"id":4784,"date":"2015-04-17T10:21:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T17:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2015-04-17T10:21:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T17:21:43","slug":"4784","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/4784\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. James Loewen Speaks at Skyline College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/04\/17089341552_d66a8b4e80_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4785 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/04\/17089341552_d66a8b4e80_z-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"Dr James Loewen\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/17089341552_d66a8b4e80_z-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/17089341552_d66a8b4e80_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Wednesday, April 8, Skyline College welcomed award-winning sociologist, historian, and best-selling author, Dr. James Loewen as part of the Skyline College Lecture Series: A Call to Consciousness.\u00a0 Dr. Loewen is best known as the Author of Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History Textbook Got Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Loewen spoke to the audience about his most recent research and publication The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The \u201cGreat Truth\u201d about the \u201cLost Cause\u201d.\u00a0 The book confronts national misconceptions of the causes behind secession of the Southern states and subsequent myth-making that occurred after the American Civil War that was designed to defend slavery and promote white supremacy throughout the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Loewen also encouraged students and faculty to engage in dialogue and research about Sundown Towns, city or neighborhood in the United States that was purposely all-white. The term came from signs that were posted stating that people of color had to leave the town by sundown. \u201cUntil we solve the problem of sundown neighborhoods and towns we do not have a chance of solving America\u2019s race problem,\u201d Loewen said.<\/p>\n<p>More information about Dr. Loewen and his research is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/sundown.afro.illinois.edu\/\">http:\/\/sundown.afro.illinois.edu<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/sundown.afro.illinois.edu\/\">\/<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, April 8, Skyline College welcomed award-winning sociologist, historian, and best-selling author, Dr. James<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}