Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights

Author: Gretchen Sorin
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1631495704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Bloomberg • Best Nonfiction Books of 2020: "[A] tour de force." The basis of a major PBS documentary by Ric Burns, this “excellent history” (The New Yorker) reveals how the automobile fundamentally changed African American life. Driving While Black demonstrates that the car—the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility—has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Melding new archival research with her family’s story, Gretchen Sorin recovers a lost history, demonstrating how, when combined with black travel guides—including the famous Green Book—the automobile encouraged a new way of resisting oppression.

DRIVING WHILE BLACK: A MEMOIR OF PROFILING

Author: Kevin J Phillips
Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1636308961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
My name is Kevin J. Phillips. The virus behind profiling comes in many forms, races, religions, sexual preferences, etc. I was a subject of profiling while driving, and my goal is to educate others on the problematic effects of profiling through this book, Driving While Black: A Memoir of Profiling.

Suspect Citizens

Author: Frank R. Baumgartner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108429319
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 295

Book Description
The costs of racially disparate patterns of police behavior are high, but the crime fighting benefits are low.

Driving While Black

Author: Kelvin R. Davis
Publisher: Interstate International Pub
ISBN: 9780931904035
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description

Driving While Black

Author: Kenneth Meeks
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307433366
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
A practical handbook for people who want to be safe and do something. Racial profiling does happen. And while cases where victims find themselves looking down the barrel of a policeman's gun make the six o'clock news, dozens of less extreme, yet troubling, examples occur every day. Cabs that whiz by only to be seen stopping for "safer"-looking people just up the block; being asked for multiple pieces of identification when making purchases with credit cards; being followed around a department store by salespeople and security while never being asked if they need any assistance; being detained for hours and extensively searched in an airport or train station--Driving While Black clearly defines the system officially known as CARD (class, age, race, dress) and offers advice about how to handle potentially life-threatening situations with the police, as well as recourse for readers who suspect their civil rights have been denied due to racial profiling. A book written to save lives, Driving While Black is not just for people of color, but for anyone who likes to wear a baseball cap, baggy jeans, sneakers, and a tee shirt and finds they are often treated like a "suspect."

Ebony

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics

Author: Eric Gutstein
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0415950848
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Driving While Black

Author: Kenneth Meeks
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417767007
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Examines racial profiling and the CARD--class, age, race, dress--system in stores and on the road, and provides advice on handling police and denial of civil rights.

Black and Mainstream Press' Framing of Racial Profiling

Author: Mia Moody-Ramirez
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761840367
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
Racial profiling has been a controversial topic in civil right's dialogue for centuries beginning with the Negro Free Registry in the slave era, emerging again with the 1980s 'War on Drugs, ' and climaxing with the 2000 'War on Terror.' This study offers an in-depth overview of the evolution of racial profiling in the United States throughout these diverse periods. It specifically offers an in-depth examination of how mainstream and Black press newspapers framed the phenomena of 'racial profiling' three years before and after the September 11 terrorist attacks. It offers readers a peek at the various types of frames, ethnic groups, and sources that journalists chose in their quest to cover the issue. Moreover, it defines, compares, and contrasts the differences in Black and Mainstream media's coverage of the issue and the unique purpose that each media form serves. Finally, this work provides a brilliant example of a frame analysis carried to its full extent

Working While Black

Author: Michelle T. Johnson
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1569768366
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Provides a black employee's guide to success when working in a white workplace, and focuses on getting hired, pursuing legal support, and using one's own style, history, and goals.