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James W. Loewen
James William Loewen was born on February 6th, 1942 in Decatur, Illinois.
Sociologist james w loewen author
The son of a doctor and a librarian, Loewen was a good student from an early age and graduated as a National Merit Scholar from his high school in 1960. He went on to attend Carleton College. In 1963, he spent one semester in Mississippi where he was exposed to a different culture that led him to wonder if what he had been taught in school about US history was entirely accurate.
He was particularly intrigued by the Chinese immigrants in Mississippi and their descendants.
Loewen later attended Harvard University where he received a Ph.D.
Sociologist james w loewen author biography
in sociology. Loewen then went on to teach at different colleges, including Tougaloo College in Mississippi. Tugaloo is a historically black college that was founded after the Civil War. At the University of Vermont, Loewen taught about racism for 20 years.
He was also a professor at the Catholic University of America in Washington DC.
In 1974, Loewen coautho