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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/5/2023
"Car Brain" Has Long Normalized Carnage on the Roads
For more than a century people have made excuses for the death and dismemberment caused by automobiles as if it were a phenomenon of nature.
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SOURCE: Public Books
4/4/2023
Julie Livingston and Andrew Ross See the Car as a Machine for Unfreedom
The automobile is an object made to symbolize freedom that actually physically embodies a host of coercive relationships to work, debt, surveillance and policing, and the basic right of free movement, according to the authors of a new study.
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SOURCE: The Progressive
10/5/2020
The Nobility of Mobility: A Road Trip Through Racism
Historian Chris West notes that “driving in a racist society” persists as a “gut-wrenching horror" in a new PBS documentary "Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America."
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