Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile
Peoples & Things
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The history of African Americans and cars was important to many contemporary concerns, including most recently the criticisms of policing that have come out of the Black Lives Matter movement. Gretchen Soren is director and distinguished professor of the Cooperstown graduate program at the State University of New York at Onyada. She and I talk about how dry and while black came to be, her career as a public historian and why the history of African American mobility and automobile use is so important for understanding much larger topics in our culture.
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