Traveling Without Moving

"A black woman in America is always on the run, desperate to survive, thrive, and finally find freedom. Using a powerful blend of perspectives that move between a first-person lens of lived experience and a wider-ranging critique of U. S. culture, policy, and academia, Taiyon J. Coleman explores what it means to write her story and that of her family-an act at once a responsibility and a privilege-bringing forth the inherent contradictions between American ideals and Black reality"-