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Highway Robbery
Transportation Racism and New Routes to Equity
Robert D. Bullard (Editor), Glenn S. Johnson (Editor), and Angel O. Torres (Editor)
Pages: 300ISBN: 0-89608-704-2
Format: paper
Release Date: 2004-01-15
This book is also available in cloth
Highway Robbery dispels a major myth that conceals enduring divisions in American life. While many people view the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as the end of government-sponsored discrimination in the United States, Highway Robberyconfirms the obvious and ignored truth: equality in transportation has been established in name only. Case by case, Highway Robbery shows how—a half-century after the Montgomery bus boycotts—chronic inequality in public transportation is firmly and nationally entrenched.
Coast to coast, equal access to healthy, reliable, and practical transportation eludes many people, the majority of them poor people and people of color. The effects of this injustice are broad and deep. Access to transportation, public and private, determines the physical and social mobility necessary for admission to larger social, economic, and civic worlds. For millions of people, exclusion from transportation networks means drastically compromised life choices. Their jeopardized health and limited economic opportunities are then compounded by the day-to-day indignities and feelings of frustration and isolation resulting from publicly funded segregation. Highway Robbery asserts that staying the current course will further polarize communities on the basis of class and color, and the powerful evidence marshaled by the authors in this anthology demands that cities and states revisit their public transportation agendas.
Drawing on legal precedents, voices from the grassroots, and academic research, Highway Robbery bridges intellectual disciplines and activist movements by linking the national inequalities in transportation to larger economic, health, environmental justice, and quality of life issues. The authors illustrate the insidious contributions of transportation policy and urban planning to the establishment and enforcement of racial and economic inequality. Written in recognition of activists like Ella Baker and Rosa Parks, Highway Robbery lays the groundwork for future transit rights organizers.
Contributors
Omar Freilla, Eric Mann, Stuart Cohen, Jeff Hobson, Brian Nogrady, Ayanna King, Amy Menzer, Caroline Harmon, Nancy Jakowitsch, and John Lewis
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Table of Contents
Foreword by US Congressman John
Lewis
Introduction by Robert D. Bullard
1 The Anatomy of Transportation Racism by Robert D. Bullard
2 Los Angeles Bus Riders Derail the MTA by Eric Mann
3 Dismantling Transit Racism in Metro Atlanta by Robert D. Bullard,
Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres
4 Burying Robert Moses’s Legacy in New York City by Omar Freilla
5 Transportation Choices in the San Francisco Bay Area by Stuart Cohen
and Jeff Hobson
6 Transit Activism in Steel Town, USA by Brian Nogrady and Ayanna
King
7 The Baltimore Transit Riders League by Amy Menzer and Caroline Harmon
8 Just Transportation by Nancy Jakowitsch and Michelle Ernst
9 Building Transportation Equity into Smart Growth by Robert D. Bullard,
Glenn S. Johnson, and Angel O. Torres
Robert D. Bullard
Click here to view Robert D. Bullard's full Author PageRobert D. Bullard is a Ware Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University. As an environmental sociologist, he has conducted research and written extensively on environmental justice, urban land use, transportation, urban sprawl, smart growth, community development, minority health, training, industrial facility siting, environmental quality and housing issues for over two decades. Prior to joining the CAU faculty in 1994, he was a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside and visiting professor in the Center for African-American Studies at UCLA. He is the co-editor with Glenn S. Johnson of Just Transportation: Dismantling Race and Class Barriers to Mobility (New Society Publishers, 1997). He is co-editor with Glenn S. Johnson and Angel O. Torres of Sprawl City: Race, Politics, and Planning in Atlanta (Island Press, 2000). He is co-editor with Julian Agyeman and Bob Evans of Just Sustainabilities: Development in an Unequal World (Earthscan/MIT Press, 2002).