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Sto caricando le informazioni... Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistancedi Mia Bay
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is the work Candacy A. Taylor (perhaps) meant to write in her book, Overground Railroad, but failed to do. It is a solidly researched and smoothly written accounting of the myriad of pains American Blacks have suffered in merely traveling across the country. Trains, buses, cars, planes, and all the associated entities connected with them: passenger terminals, gas stations, lodging, eating, etc. It joins my personal Pantheon of best histories on the Black experience in the United States. In this case, the focus is transportation. It joins Ari Berman's book, Give Us the Ballot, and Carol Anderson's book, One Person, No Vote, on voting rights, Richard Rothstein's book, The Color of Law, on housing, Douglas A. Blackmon's book, Slavery By Another Name, and Michelle Alexander's book, The New Jim Crow, on incarceration, Danielle L. McGuire's book, At the Dark End of the Street, on women, and Phillip Dray's book, At the Hands of Persons Unknown, on lynchings. There are many fine histories out there besides these, but any reader, especially one who is not Black, or who is too young to have experienced what others may have gone through before them, would be far ahead of the average American, by reading these books, in understanding the massive obstacles that one set of Americans have put in Black America's way over the decades. As a side note about this particular book, besides the overwhelming and damaging biases displayed in this book, one reaction I had while reading it was how often the discrimination never even managed to go beyond simply petty nonsense, a desperate clinging to some vestige of superiority, like something an immature school kid would do to another classmate in spite, but, in these lesser cases, it was government officials and business leaders being the spoiled children, acting out. In short, at best, they never even rise past being really pathetic. Read this book and the others quickly before your state or local government bans them all, and burns them on the street in front of your house. ( ) Rosa Parks on a bus is probably one of the images that most readily comes to mind when people think about the American Civil Rights Movement. Yet as Mia Bay neatly demonstrates in Traveling Black, the relationship between travel, racism, and the struggle for civil rights has a far deeper and more complex history in the United States. Bay traces the origins of travel segregation in antebellum stagecoaches and steamboats, continues on to early twentieth-century trains and buses, shows the more subtle forms of discrimination practiced in the jet age, and connects it all finally to the continuing problems faced for those "Driving While Black" in the present day. I finished it amazed at how many white Americans were willing to incur additional expense and bother—even put themselves in actual physical danger—rather than allow Black people to move through the world in relative comfort and on equitable terms. An important read. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A riveting, character-rich account of racial segregation in America that reveals just how central travel restrictions were to the creation of Jim Crow laws ?and why ?traveling Black ? has been at the heart of the quest for racial justice ever since. Why have white supremacists and civil rights activists been so focused on Black mobility? From Plessy v. Ferguson to #DrivingWhileBlack, African Americans have fought for over a century to move freely around the United States. Curious as to why so many cases contesting the doctrine of ?separate but equal ? involved trains and buses, Mia Bay went back to the sources with some basic questions: How did travel segregation begin? Why were so many of those who challenged it in court women? How did it move from one form of transport to another, and what was it like to be caught up in this web of contradictory rules? From stagecoaches, steamships, and trains to buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why racial restrictions took shape and brilliantly portrays what it was like to live with them. ?There is not in the world a more disgraceful denial of human brotherhood than the ?Jim Crow ? car of the southern United States, ? W. E. B. Du Bois famously declared. Bay unearths troves of supporting evidence, rescuing forgotten stories of undaunted passengers who made it back home despite being insulted, stranded, re-routed, and ignored. Black travelers never stopped challenging these humiliations and insisting on justice in the courts. Traveling Black upends our understanding of Black resistance, documenting a sustained fight that falls outside the traditional boundaries of the Civil Rights Movement. A masterpiece of scholarly and human insight, this book helps explain why the long, unfinished journey to racial equality so often takes place on the road. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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