Driving While Black: Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxi Cabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back If You Are a Victim of Racial Profiling

Driving While Black: Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxi Cabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back If You Are a Victim of Racial ProfilingA 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

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 department store by salespeople and security while never being asked if they need any assistance; being detained for hours and extensively searched in an airport or train station--Driving While Black clearly defines the system officially known as CARD (class, age, race, dress) and offers advice about how to handle potentially life-threatening situations with the police, as well as recourse for readers who suspect their civil rights have been denied due to racial profiling.

A book written to save lives, Driving While Black is not just for people of color, but for anyone who likes to wear a baseball cap, baggy jeans, sneakers, and a tee shirt and finds they are often treated like a "suspect."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 05/16/2000
ISBN: 9780767905497
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.70d

Review Citations: Ebony 06/01/2000 pg. 21
Essence 06/01/2000 pg. 74
Booklist 05/15/2000 pg. 1707
Library Journal 05/01/2000 pg. 135
Black Issues Book Review 09/01/2000 pg. 18
School Library Journal 12/01/2000 pg. 170