Highway robbery
Subtitle: transportation racism & new routes to equity
By: edited by Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, Angel O. Torres
Contributors: Bullard, Robert D. 1946-; Johnson, Glenn S.; Torres, Angel O
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Transportation -- Social aspects -- United States; Transportation and state -- United States; Local transit -- United States -- Case studies; Race discrimination -- United States; Social justice; United States -- Race relations
Genres: Case studies
Description: Transportation Racism illustrates the obvious but ignored: chronic transportation inequality remains firmly entrenched a half-century after the Montgomery bus boycotts. This precedent setting text combines academic research with voices from the grassroots to expose the racism concealed within transportation planning and to establish transportation equity as a critical issue of the continued civil rights struggle.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-224) and index
Table of contents: title: Foreword / US Congressman John Lewis; title: Anatomy of transportation racism / Robert D. Bullard; title: Los Angeles bus riders derail the MTA / Eric Mann; title: Dismantling transit racism in metro Atlanta / Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres; title: Burying Robert Moses' legacy in New York / Omar Freilla; title: Transportation choices in the San Francisco Bay area / Stuart Cohen and Jeff Hobson; title: Light rail and busways in steel town, USA / Brian Nogrady and Ayanna King; title: Baltimore Transit Riders League / Amy Menzer and Caroline Harmon; title: Just transportation in the 21st century / Nancy Jakowitsch; title: Building transportation equity into smart growth / Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres