![]() Sorin begins with compulsory travel during the Middle Passage, considers the limitations on movement enforced during slavery, examines Jim Crow train cars, racism on interstate buses, and back-of-the-bus policies on city buses, all before she gets to cars.įor blacks, cars arrived as a haven. ![]() In order to chronicle the history well, as Sorin does, one has to overwhelm. If that sounds overwhelming, it is sometimes. Sorin’s book represents millions of miles traveled in millions of shoes over more than 100,000 days. ![]() ![]() If “walk a mile in my shoes” is a way to invite another person to experience the world as you have, then Gretchen Sorin’s “Driving While Black” - a history of the centuries-long effort to limit and indignify black mobility - is that same concept magnified. ![]()
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