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'American highways were too often built through Black neighborhoods on purpose, ' transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg tweeted in 2021. In deeply researched and carefully crafted case studies, the talented contributors to this impressive volume shine a bright light on the racialized politics that demolished businesses and homes and heaped another round of grime and noise on the nation's poorest residents. --Mark H. Rose, Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University This collection of essays challenges us to confront the history of politics and race that built America's highways. Justice and the Interstates is a must-read for government officials, transportation policymakers, scholars, and anyone who travels in a car -- that is, everybody. --Sarah A. Seo, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, author of Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom

'American highways were too often built through Black neighborhoods on purpose, ' transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg tweeted in 2021. In deeply researched and carefully crafted case studies, the talented contributors to this impressive volume shine a bright light on the racialized politics that demolished businesses and homes and heaped another round of grime and noise on the nation's poorest residents. --Mark H. Rose, Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University This collection of essays challenges us to confront the history of politics and race that built America's highways. Justice and the Interstates is a must-read for government officials, transportation policymakers, scholars, and anyone who travels in a car -- that is, everybody. --Sarah A. Seo, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, author of Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom

"""'American highways were too often built through Black neighborhoods on purpose, ' transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg tweeted in 2021. In deeply researched and carefully crafted case studies, the talented contributors to this impressive volume shine a bright light on the racialized politics that demolished businesses and homes and heaped another round of grime and noise on the nation's poorest residents.""--Mark H. Rose, Professor of History, Florida Atlantic University ""This collection of essays challenges us to confront the history of politics and race that built America's highways. Justice and the Interstates is a must-read for government officials, transportation policymakers, scholars, and anyone who travels in a car -- that is, everybody.""--Sarah A. Seo, Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, author of ""Policing the Open Road: How Cars Transformed American Freedom"""

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Ryan Reft is a historian of the Modern U.S. in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. Since 2017, He has worked as senior co-editor of the Urban History Association's blog, The Metropole. Amanda Phillips de Lucas is a social scientist and environmental historian. She studies infrastructure, highways, environmental justice, and social movements. Rebecca Retzlaff is a professor in the Community Planning Program and director of the Academic Sustainability Program at Auburn University. She formerly worked as a planner with the City of Detroit and in the Research Department of the American Planning Association.

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