A Nightmare on
Elm Street (1984) which feature all white casts. As Andrew Wiese writes, the suburbs, particularly on screen, are a “Spatial metaphor for whiteness itself”
4. But as Sociologist James Loewen reminds us, America’s suburbs did not fortuitously remain white. “On the contrary, all-white suburbs were achieved”
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In the Jim Crow South, for instance, so-called Sundown Towns––places that banned non-whites from entering city lines after dark, were used as a strategy to segregate minority groups from white populations. Some communities posted signs such as ‘Nigger Don’t Let the Sun Set on You Here’ at the entrance of their town, warning non-whites of the consequences of being found after dark. And even though many Black people often worked or shopped in these spaces during the day, by preventing them from spending the night in the town, residents made sure that physically and symbolically such places remained white.