We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Title: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance Author: Kellie Carter Jackson ISBN: 9781541602908 Publisher: Seal Press Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New Black Studies 1626215 Publisher Description: An "unsparing, erudite, and incisive" (Jelani Cobb) reframing of the past and present of Black resistance--both nonviolent and violent--to white supremacy Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's "by any means necessary." In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women. The dismissal of "Black violence" as an illegitimate form of resistance is itself a manifestation of white supre