Rigby David, Esposito Michael H, Lee Hedwig, Van Riper David C, Hicken Margaret T, Berrey Stephen A
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
Sci Data. 2025 Jan 8;12(1):31. doi: 10.1038/s41597-024-04330-9.
We present a new national data set of historical sundown towns in the United States linked to contemporary spatial information - i.e., the Historical Sundown Towns Linked to US Census Geographies database. Sundown towns are places that once enacted legal or conventional practices meant to restrict the movement or residency of Black people and other people of color within their borders. Our data are based upon rich prior research by historians identifying where these racial restrictions on movement were practiced across the nation. We provide spatial information on these sundown towns, facilitating their linkage to contemporary and historical Census data from 1940 to 2020. These data present an important resource for scientists conducting quantitative studies of the durable legacies of historical racism, enabling granular analyses of the long-term consequences of an understudied form of historical racial control.
我们展示了一个新的美国历史上日落镇的全国数据集，该数据集与当代空间信息相关联——即《与美国人口普查地理信息相关的历史日落镇数据库》。日落镇是指那些曾经实施法律或惯例，旨在限制黑人及其他有色人种在其境内流动或居住的地方。我们的数据基于历史学家此前的大量研究，这些研究确定了这些种族流动限制在全国的实施地点。我们提供了这些日落镇的空间信息，便于将它们与1940年至2020年的当代和历史人口普查数据相联系。这些数据为科学家们对历史种族主义的持久遗产进行定量研究提供了重要资源，能够对一种研究较少的历史种族控制形式的长期后果进行细致分析。
