“Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America”Ĭulture Representation: The documentary “Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America” features a predominantly African American group (with a few white people and one Latino) of academics, entrepreneurs, historians and authors discussing the racial prejudices and challenges experienced by African Americans who’ve taken various modes of transportation, especially cars, in the United States.Ĭulture Clash: African Americans are often the targets of bigotry, violence or other acts of hate for driving or traveling.Ĭulture Audience: “Driving While Black” will appeal primarily to people interested in well-researched historical accounts of racial bigotry in America, but the movie lacks perspectives from young people and in-depth coverage of recent “driving while black” controversies. Alison Rose Jefferson, Allyson Hobbs, Alvin Hall, Candacy Taylor, Carolyn Finney, Christopher West, Craig Steven Wilder, documentaries, Driving While Black, Driving While Black: Race Space and Mobility in America, Eric Avila, Fath Ruffins, Gary Jackson, Gretchen Sorin, Herb Boyd, Howard Glener, Jennifer Reut, Lolis Elie, Mae Stiger, movies, PBS, reviews, Ric Burns, Spencer Crew, Tamara Banks, Thomas Sugrue, Walter Edwardsīy Carla Hay Ben Chaney (center) and his family in the car on the way to the funeral of his brother James in Meridian, Mississippi, on August 7, 1964, in “Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America” (Photo by Bill Eppridge/Courtesy of PBS)

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