Racing While Black : How an African-American Stock Car Team Made its Mark on NASCAR - Hardcover

Leonard W Miller; Andrew Simon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1583228969 ISBN 13: 9781583228968

Publisher: SEVEN STORIES PRESS, 2010

Synopsis

Starting a Nascar team is hard work. Starting a Nascar team as an African American is even harder. This is just one of the lessons learned by Leonard T. Miller during his decade and a half of running an auto racing programme. Fuelled by more than the desire to win, Miller made it his goal to create opportunities for black racing drivers in the vastly white, Southern world of Nascar. This title chronicles the travails of selling marketing plans to sceptics and scraping by on the thinnest of budgets.

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Review:

"We discover in Leonard T. Miller's moving memoir, "Racing While Black," that socially, the Millers were notches above the other drivers... Although Miller and his father were anomalies, they loved stock cars as much as the next good ol' boy. "Auto racing is in my blood," writes Miller, who graduated from Morehouse College and is a commercial airline pilot. "I was drawn to the ear-piercing clamor, the cottony trains of exhaust, and the smell of rubber being singed by the asphalt...".I loved the overall story. Despite it all, Miller has written a generous book."-"Washington Post"

..". There's one major difference between NASCAR and the rest of America's pastimes: a startling lack of racial diversity. Leonard T. Miller's book explains why...Miller and Simon give you a firsthand account of all the wins and losses that come with creating a racing team, along with the extreme prejudices that minorities must overcome just to make it to the track."-"The Complex"

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About the Author:

LEONARD T. MILLER is a second-generation African-American auto racing team owner, the president of Miller Racing Group, Inc, and a twenty-one-year veteran commercial airline pilot. His dad, Leonard W. Miller, entered a team in the 1972 Indianapolis 500 and is in the Black Athletes Hall of Fame.
ANDREW SIMON is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn, New York. For over a decade he has covered music, sports, and pop culture for Rolling Stone Press, VIBE, Complex, and ESPN Magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1583228969
• ISBN 13: 9781583228968
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 319