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Highway robbery

by Robert D. Bullard, Glenn S. Johnson

Cover of Highway robbery

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.

Race relationsCase studiesTransportationRace discriminationSocial justiceLocal transitTransportation and stateUnited states, economic conditionsUnited states, social conditionsRegional planningSocial aspects