Navigating The Green Book: The Networks of Black Digitality and Print

This article offers an excavation of The Negro Motorist Green-Book, or The Green Book, tracking its documentation of and innovation in Black mobility in the mid-twentieth century. In reterritorializing the boundaries of Black mobility, The Green Book created an ageographical space amid (or through) its encouragement of African Americans to traverse geography. Such a network parallels the early Black periodicals that mapped African America as its own nation, and has since carried forward to the guidebook's contemporary inheritors through virtual reenactments and digital projects, thereby demonstrating the generative potential of new media for our understanding of Black material culture.