Driving While Black
Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxi Cabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back if You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling
$35.99
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
16 May 2000
Summary
A practical handbook for people who want to be safe and do something.
Racial profiling does happen. And while cases where victims find themselves looking down the barrel of a policeman’s gun make the six o’clock news, dozens of less extreme, yet troubling, examples occur every day. Cabs that whiz by only to be seen stopping for “safer”-looking people just up the block; being asked for multiple pieces of identification when making purchases with credit cards; being followed around a de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780767905497 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0767905490 |
| Author: | Kenneth Meeks |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 16 May 2000 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
“From the front seat of a police cruiser, racial profiling is not racism. It’s a tool–and cops have no intention of giving it up.” –The New York Times Magazine
“From the front seat of a police cruiser, racial profiling is not racism. It’s a tool–and cops have no intention of giving it up.”
–The New York Times Magazine
About The Author
Kenneth Meeks
Kenneth Meeks is a journalist with more than a decade of experience and is now Managing Editor of Black Enterprise magazine. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
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