sundown townとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

sundown town (複数形 sundown towns)

1. A place or jurisdiction that prohibits or discourages a certain class of people, typically a certain race or ethnicity, from living there or remaining there after sundown, or, in some cases, from visiting during the day.

   Synonyms: sunset town, gray town, sundowner town

   • 1946 August 8, Stosz, J. D., “Jay Dee's Column”, in The Marysville Advocate‎^[1], Marysville, Kansas, page 11:

     Beattie is a sundown town for tramps since the fire.

   • 1957 November 11, Ator, Joseph, “Firm Hand of the Law Stifles Nashville's Strife by Racial Segregation”, in Chicago Daily Tribune‎^[2], 1, page 2:

     Cousin Paul said: "Of course, this is a sundown town [no Negro residents tolerated], but if Ike sends in the paratroopers, we can always integrate with the bears."

   • 1960, The National Conference and the reports of the State Advisory Committees to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights‎^[3], page 330:

     However, according to old-timers, there is a time-honored tradition extending back at least two generations that "this is a sundown town."

   • 1968 August 25, Walker, Doug, “Integration Moving on Peaceful Feet”, in Dayton Daily News‎^[4], Dayton, Ohio, page 4-C:

     A dandy example is Fairborn, up until recent years a "Sundown Town" where community forces worked in concert to keep Negroes out.

   • 2016 July 11, Jozwiak, Miller, “From 'Go Home' to 'Welcome Home' for local man”, in The Sheboygan Press‎^[5], Sheboygan, Wisconsin, pages 1A–2A:

     [James W.] Loewen compiled an online map allowing people to find out more about the racial history of their towns, identifying thousands of likely and confirmed sundown towns across the U.S.

参考

• Jim Crow
• redlining
• segregation

Further reading

• sundown town on Wikipedia.