Title: A Parallel Road
Artist: Amani Willett
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12.5 x 17 cm
120 pages
92 photographs, archival images and screenshots
Section-sewn binding with printed paper hardcover and cloth-covered spine (foiled)
Design by Tiffany Jones
English
December 2021
ISBN: 9781999446871
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.
- From the publisher’s website
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.
- From the publisher’s website
