Driving While Black: Highways, Shopping Malls, Taxi Cabs, Sidewalks: How to Fight Back if You Are a Victim...

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Kenneth Meeks

Driving While Black

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

Kenneth Meeks

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English

Random House Inc
16 May 2000

Social discrimination; Ethnic studies

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.""

By: Kenneth Meeks
Imprint: Random House Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 235g
ISBN: 9780767905497
ISBN 10: 0767905490
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 16 May 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

A journalist for more than a decade, Kenneth Meeks is now Managing Editor of Black Enterprise magazine. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

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

"""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"