Racing While Black : How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR - Leonard T. Miller

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Racing While Black

How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR

By: Leonard T. Miller

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Hardcover | 2 June 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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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"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

"You don't have to have motor oil running through your veins to savor the rich slice of contemporary Americana that Miller and Simon serve up--an unlikely team's journey through the grimy garages and cool corporate offices where one of the nation's fastest-growing spectator sport actually gets played. And if you are a racing freak, this is a book that tells secrets, names names and exposes the divisions that still constrict the sport." -Amy Argetsinger, The Washington Post

"As a racing team executive, co-author Leonard T. Miller brings an insider's knowledge to the story. This book will help readers understand why NASCAR, unlike other major sports, remains all-white at its top level. Racing While Black is an illuminating, action-packed journey through a little-known chapter in our country's racial history." -Brian Donovan, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Hard Driving: The American Odyssey of NASCAR's First Black Driver

"Making it to the big leagues of American motorsports is a nearly impossible climb. As we learn from Mr. Miller, when you're an African-American, that climb becomes Mt. Everest. That's what makes this account so important." -Ryan McGee, ESPN The Magazine

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Foreword	p. 7
Acknowledgments	p. 13
Like Father	p. 15
Finding Jackie	p. 27
Concord	p. 43
Starting Our Engine	p. 63
"Do all these places accept MasterCard?"	p. 81
Flip the Switches	p. 95
Almost Sponsored	p. 107
Chasing the Check	p. 133
"Wendell! Wendell! Wendell!"	p. 153
Shot Callers	p. 177
A White Driver?	p. 195
A New Hope	p. 225
The Beginning of the End	p. 263
Champions	p. 297
A Brief History of Black Achievements in Motorsports	p. 308
Index	p. 313
About the Authors	p. 320
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Racing While Black

How an African-American Stock Car Team Made Its Mark on NASCAR

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