Are We There Yet?
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Book Review
Are We There Yet?
Jamila Jefferson-Jones
It’s my favorite season of the year! It’s summertime! Three cheers for summer! The summer is a time of freedom: Kids are out of school and Americans hit the road. Sometimes it’s the actual road—packing the family in the car for a trip to a vacation spot or Grandma’s house. Sometimes summer travel is by train, bus, air or even ship. Either way, when the summer starts, Americans take seriously the slogan of the airline that proclaimed, “You are now free to move about the country!” As Mia Bay, the Roy F. and Jannette P. Nichols Professor of American History at the University of Pennsylvania, notes in her award-winning 2021 book, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, “American