We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

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 s...