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'Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America': TV Review

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From the context behind the Jim Crow-era guides to safe Black travel featured in Green Book and Lovecraft Countryto a clear, timely argument that the history of American policing is inextricably linked to a history of restricting Black movement, PBS' new feature-length documentary Driving While Blackoffers several things of interest to a mainstream audience.

Still, I can't dispute that the title of Ric Burns and historian Dr. Gretchen Sorin's doc, Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America, makes it sound like a dissertation or at least a grad school essay.

It's somehow even more rigorous-sounding than the full title of Sorin's new book on the topic, Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil.

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