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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,...Author
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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.
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Chronicling the history and personal experiences of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond - Driving While Black explores the background of a phrase rooted in realities that have been a part of the African American experience for hundreds of years - told in part through the stories of the people who lived through it.