The book is most effective in unearthing the stories of little-known, everyday rebellions, especially from the lives of Black women ... Her book is not an instruction manual for activists. But she does suggest that every era gets the protest movement it needs and deserves. History — complicated, cleareyed and unrepentant — is her warning and her weapon of choice.
Jackson... fuses solid research with an urgent authorial voice ... This taut and fiery discussion focuses on historical research (with occasional repetition) and transformative figures (often little known) along with hard-won insight from Jackson’s personal experiences. An uncompromising yet accessible rejoinder to conventional wisdom about race and violence in the U.S.
Enthralling ... By astutely delineating how Black resistance strategies have always existed on a spectrum between the binary of nonviolence vs. violence, Carter Jackson demolishes an unnecessarily rigid distinction. The result is an invigorating paradigm shift.
