We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance Book cover type:Hardcover It’s a book that questions

It’s a book that questions our too-simple narratives about poverty and upward mobility

creatures and ghosts who can speak to her

Calling My Name follows Taja on her journey from middle school to high school

” —Los Angeles TimesIn the bustling streets and cloistered homes of Lagos

Hardcover - When Sheldon Russell Curtis told this story to his daughter

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance Book cover type:Hardcover It’s a book that questionsAn unsparing, erudite, and incisive (Jelani Cobb) reframing of the past and present of Black resistanceboth nonviolent and violentto white supremacy Named a Best Book of 2024 by Smithsonian * Kirkus * Chicago Review of Books * Emancipator Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s nonviolence and Malcolm Xs by any means necessary. In We Refuse, historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us