“Travel without Embarrassment”: Reconsidering Black Mobility Justice in the Age of The Negro Motorist Green Book
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This paper examines The Negro Motorist Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans published between 1936 and 1966 during the Jim Crow era. Building on Mimi Sheller’s concept of “subversive mobilities” as inherently political and ever evolving, this study explores how The Negro Motorist Green Book performed as a political tool to challenge deeply embedded racial segregation in the United States. By extending the sociological spatial turn which views spaces as continuously constructed through interrelations, I argue that mobility is also a dynamic and relational process fundamental to the formation of subjects and spaces. This paper traces the historical origins of racial segregation, from slavery to its restriction on black mobility, and examines how these regulations also spurred counter-movements that resisted dominant regimes. These counter-movements or subversive mobilities contributed to the creation of black rival geographies and ageographical black spaces. The Negro Motorist Green Book not only provided African Americans with practical tools to navigate the geographical limits of segregation by introducing safe places to sleep, eat, and rest along the road, but also redefined white-dominated mobility by contesting its racial boundaries. Its emphasis on black uplift during the Civil Rights Movement empowered African American communities and played a significant role in the eventual repeal of Jim Crow laws. The Negro Motorist Green Book exemplifies how black communities strategically resisted the dominant racial order and white geography by extending black geography, demonstrating the resilience and strength required to mobilize toward justice.
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This paper examines The Negro Motorist Green Book, a travel guide for African Americans published between 1936 and 1966 during the Jim Crow era. Building on Mimi Sheller’s concept of “subversive mobilities” as inherently political and ever evolving, this study explores how The Negro Motorist Green Book performed as a political tool to challenge deeply embedded racial segregation in the United States. By extending the sociological spatial turn which views spaces as continuously constructed through interrelations, I argue that mobility is also a dynamic and relational process fundamental to the formation of subjects and spaces. This paper traces the historical origins of racial segregation, from slavery to its restriction on black mobility, and examines how these regulations also spurred counter-movements that resisted dominant regimes. These counter-movements or subversive mobilities contributed to the creation of black rival geographies and ageographical black spaces. The Negro Motorist Green Book not only provided African Americans with practical tools to navigate the geographical limits of segregation by introducing safe places to sleep, eat, and rest along the road, but also redefined white-dominated mobility by contesting its racial boundaries. Its emphasis on black uplift during the Civil Rights Movement empowered African American communities and played a significant role in the eventual repeal of Jim Crow laws. The Negro Motorist Green Book exemplifies how black communities strategically resisted the dominant racial order and white geography by extending black geography, demonstrating the resilience and strength required to mobilize toward justice.
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