A Parallel Road (Second Edition Hardcover)
Amani Willett
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Year
2021
Country
United Kingdom
City
London
Publisher
Tiffany Jones
Amani Willett
Designer
Tiffany Jones
Text author
Amani Willett
Paper Type
Fedrigoni
ISBN
9781999446871
Number of pages
120
Paper weight
Fedrigoni
Notes
12.5 x 17 cm portrait (Approx 5x7in), 120 pages
92 photographs, archival images and digital screenshots
(Second edition includes 7 new images and 8 further pages)
This multi-layered work explores the Black experience of driving in America over the past 85 years. By picturing how it has too often been marked by fear, violence and death, A Parallel Road challenges representations of the American ideal of the road trip that have long dominated our view through artistic and literary media. Referencing the historical Negro Motorist Green Book, and layering archival and new images, it examines the question of how long the road will continue to be a site of violence and oppression for Black people in American society.