Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

About Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America

Discover how the advent of the automobile brought new mobility and freedom for African Americans but also exposed them to discrimination and deadly violence, and how that history resonates today.

Gretchen Sorin and Ric Burns directed Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America, a 2020 documentary film. Eric Avila appears as Self - Professor of History, UCLA, Tamara Banks as Self - Journalist, Herb Boyd as Self - “Black Detroit” Author, and Leah Chase as Self - Owner, Dooky Chase Restaurant.

At 115 minutes long, it arrived in October 2020.

Members will find police brutality and racism in it. In the United States it streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel.

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, La Haine, and Straight Outta Compton make useful companions to Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America.