James Loewen
Southern Exposure Contributor
Jim Loewen attended Mississippi State University in 1963 and earned his PhD in sociology from Harvard in 1968. He has taught at Tougaloo College and the University of Vermont, and is now a writer and lecturer based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White and Mississippi: Conflict and Change, which won the Lillian Smith Award for Best Southern Nonfiction. His most recent books include the best-seller Lies My Teacher Told Me and Lies Across America, published last November. (2000)
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Articles by James Loewen
May 1, 2000 -
This article originally appeared in Southern Exposure Vol. 28 No. 1/2, "Lies Across the South." Find more from that issue here.