The significance of race to transport history

Journal of Transport History

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 307-311

  Seiler, Cotten ^a  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

RACE; TRANSPORTATION HISTORY;

EID: 36749053472     PISSN: 00225266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7227/TJTH.28.2.13     Document Type: Review

References (14)

1. Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, p. 130. (Avalon Project at Yale Law School, www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/blackstone/ blacksto.htm.)
2. 'Jim Crow' names the systematic segregation in much of the United States, but particularly the south, from the 1870s through the 1960s. See Richard Wormser, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (New York, 2004).
3. Justice John Harlan, Dissent, Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896).
4. The author, Herman H. Long, further notes that if the same passenger 'seeks passage to a Southern destination by air, no carrier system will attempt to administer a pattern of segregated seating'. The unwillingness or inability of airlines to discriminate might offer an interesting avenue of enquiry for transport scholars. Long, 'Racial desegregation in railroad and bus transportation', Journal of Negro Education 23, 3 (1954), 216.
5. See, for example, Mike Featherstone, Nigel Thrift and John Urry (eds), Automobilities (London, 2005).
6. See Mark Simpson, Trafficking Subjects: the Politics of Mobility in Nineteenth-century America (Minneapolis MN, 2005),
7. and Doreen Massey, Space, Place and Gender (Cambridge, 1994).
8. See Paul Gilroy, 'Driving while black', in Daniel Miller (ed.), Car Cultures (Oxford and New York, 2001), pp. 81-104.
9. See also Kathleen Franz, 'The "open road": automobility and racial uplift in the interwar years', in Daniel Miller (ed.), Technology and the AfricanAmerican Experience (Cambridge MA, 2004), pp. 131-54;
10. Mark Foster, 'In the face of "Jim Crow": prosperous blacks and vacations, travel and outdoor leisure, 1890-1945', Journal of Negro History 84, 2 (1999), 130-49;
11. and Cotten Seiler, '"So that we as a race have something authentic to travel by": African-American automobility and Cold War liberalism', American Quarterly 58, 4 (2006), 1091-117.
12. Colin Divall and George Revill, 'Cultures of transport', Journal of Transport History 26 (1), 100, 101.
13. Divall and Revill, 'Cultures of Transport', p. 100.
14. Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color (Cambridge MA, 1998), p. 33.