Dark travel: exhuming the racialised transit gaps beneath twentieth-century travel maps

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This article reveals how travel maps obscured safe routes for African American travellers, highlighting racialised transport gaps.

The article reveals that typical interstate highway maps excluded safe travel routes for African American travellers, emphasizing the lack of representational cartography.
Racialised transport gaps became effectively hidden within the narratives of American freedom, as evidenced by historical references to the Jim Crow era and the Green Book.
Examining the absence of representational maps, the research underscores how policymakers and urban planners escaped culpability for a racially biased infrastructure.
The analysis draws comparisons with redlining maps that document housing discrimination, pointing out the omission of cartographic evidence for transportation disparities.

Cara Michell (2025) studied this question.

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This article reveals how travel maps obscured safe routes for African American travellers, highlighting racialised transport gaps.

The article reveals that typical interstate highway maps excluded safe travel routes for African American travellers, emphasizing the lack of representational cartography.
Racialised transport gaps became effectively hidden within the narratives of American freedom, as evidenced by historical references to the Jim Crow era and the Green Book.
Examining the absence of representational maps, the research underscores how policymakers and urban planners escaped culpability for a racially biased infrastructure.
The analysis draws comparisons with redlining maps that document housing discrimination, pointing out the omission of cartographic evidence for transportation disparities.

Cara Michell (2025) studied this question.

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