Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team Made its Mark on NASCAR |  | Authors: Leonard T. Miller, Andrew Simon
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
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Pages: 320
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 1583228969
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.720922
EAN: 9781583228968
ASIN: 1583228969
Publication Date: February 1, 2010
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“Miller throws the restrictor plate away for this race. He takes you to the red line.”—Bobby Gerhart, five-time winner of the ARCA Daytona 200 Starting a NASCAR team is hard work. Starting a NASCAR team as an African American is even harder. These are just a few of the lessons learned by Leonard T. Miller during his decade and a half of running an auto racing program. Fueled by more than the desire to win, Miller made it his goal to create opportunities for black drivers in the vastly white, Southern world of NASCAR. His forthcoming book chronicles the travails of selling marketing plans to skeptics and scraping by on the thinnest of budgets, as well as the triumphs of speeding to victory and changing the way racing fans view skin color. With his father—former drag racer and longtime team owner Leonard W. Miller—along for the ride, Miller journeys from the short tracks of the Carolinas to the boardrooms of the “Big Three” automakers to find out that his toughest race may be winning over the human race. Leonard T. Miller is a second-generation African American auto racing team owner. He has fielded teams in NASCAR and open-wheel racing. Andrew Simon is a senior editor at ESPN The Magazine. His writing has appeared in The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll, VIBE, and Complex.
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The real facts about NASCAR April 7, 2010
Elliott Smith (Long Beach, CA, US)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The "real" story about NASCAR is very enlightening. I have looked forward to having a real "underdog" to root for in NASCAR for so long. This is a very clear and in-depth reason there will no-doubt never be one. When I read about Wendell Scott a few years ago, I started watching a few of the events, "knowing" someone with the ability to compete on this level would rise through the ranks and get my heart thumping. Racing While Black lets me know, it's no going to happend in NASCAR, so no longer am I even interested in looking at it. I try to stay away from the various sponsors, in that I now know they really don't appreciate it anyway.
At least NHRA and Formula One Racing warrants attention. Maybe, just maybe,there will be another champion that looks like me. Lewis Hamilton did well and I look forward to seeeing him drive here in the States.
A Great Track Record March 26, 2010
Curtis Thomas (PHILADELPHIA, PA, US)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book "RACING WHILE BLACK" is very educational. I found it to be a good read. I know more about motor racing and the historical participation of blacks in the sport thanks to Len Miller.
Highly recommended, especially for NASCAR fans curious to learn more behind the scenes about their favorite sport April 17, 2010
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
Racing While Black: How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR is testimony of author Leonard T. Miller, owner of Miller Racing for fifteen years, who found his niche in creating opportunities for black drivers amid one of the most heavily white-dominated sports in the America. From working with paper-thin budgets to selling marketing plans to skeptics, to the thrill of victory and working to transform how NASCAR fans view skin color, Racing While Black is an amazing look at a popular sport from a unique industry insider's perspective. Highly recommended, especially for NASCAR fans curious to learn more behind the scenes about their favorite sport.
Well written, excellent information - True Facts! July 17, 2010
Mr. Skip (Baton Rouge, LA USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed the book. Took up where Silent Thunder left off, but this book is written so much better than Silent Thunder. The authors have really done a good job of getting their facts and making the story interesting.
Having lived through a lot of this type thing, I am a black drag racer that started racing back in the early 60's in the South, I know where Mr. Miller is coming from.
I was born and raised in Daytona Beach, FL, and I was, and still am, a NASCAR fan. I attended races on the old beach/road course, before the current speedway was built, in Daytona Beach. I remember when Wendell Scott raced a Chrysler 300, sponsored by Mercury Outboards, at the old beach/road course.
I had the pleasure of meeting "Len" Miller, the author's father, in 2000. In fact, I had lunch with Len and Malcolm Durham at the "Millennium Black Racing Conference" in Maryland, January 2000.
The conference bought together black racers from all over the country to try to establish a network of black racing organizations that could help each other. This conference covered everything, such as, obtaining sponsorship, making effective presentations, accounting, taxes, lawyer's advice on racing, negotiating with track owners, putting on events and many other subjects. The conference was sponsored by Quartermasters Racing Team of Maryland.
This book is highly recommended! Too bad that it is a true story that is as true today, 2010, as it was in the past 5 decades in NASCAR.
Oliver "Skip" Holbert, Jr.
mrskipracing.com
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