![]() ![]() ![]() But telling their story gave me a deeper understanding of them.”īlack mobility and the freedom and limitations that accompany it is a major theme in the film, which traces this country’s restrictive treatment of Black folks back to slavery and the violence and forced journey through the Middle Passage. “My brother and I thought their behaviors were peculiar when we went on vacation. “It made me understand my parents and gave me a deep appreciation for these people who grew up in the Jim Crow era,” Sorin tells Shondaland. The film is now airing on PBS and streaming on the PBS app. It also inspired the new PBS documentary, Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America, which Sorin directed with filmmaker Ric Burns. ![]() Sorin, who is also an exhibit curator and distinguished professor and director of the Cooperstown Graduate Program at the State University of New York, spent 25 years researching the book, which hit store shelves earlier this year. ![]()
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