Avidly Reads Passages

by Michelle D Commander and Michelle D. Commander

Book Overview

"What is the value of Black life in America?"

In Avidly Reads Passages, Michelle D. Commander plies four freighted modes of travel--the slave ship, train, automobile, and bus--to map the mobility of her ancestors over the past five centuries. In the process, she refreshes the conventional American travel narrative by telling an urgent story about how history shapes what moves us, as well as what prevents so many Black Americans...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479806161
• ISBN13: 9781479806164
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"