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A Forceful History of Black Resistance
by Kellie Carter Jackson
Book Reviewed by:The cover image of Kellie Carter Jackson's We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance is designed to provoke a response. A Black woman in an ankle-length white ruffly dress with dreadlocks piled atop her head holds a long shotgun pointed to the ground, her expression a steely gaze. The hyper-realist painting, by artist Taha Clayton, depicts a Black person preparing to use force, if necessary, to stand her ground.
The feeling the image might produce in some viewers, Jackson's exceptional work of historical exploration suggests, is one of fear or revulsion, as it is in defiance of the expectations and preferences of a white supremacist culture. A white supremacist society encourages people of color to limit their protest methods to those of nonviolence because this is what is required to maintain that supremacy. These methods can be incredibly slow to generate results, or ...
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