Jackson, a professor of Africana studies at Wellesley, begins her book with an anecdote: When her great-grandmother Arnesta was a girl in early-1900s Alabama, she stepped on a rusty nail and became gravely ill. A White doctor agreed to help on the condition that Arnesta live with him for the rest of her life and work for his family. But Arnesta’s grandmother, who had been born into slavery, would not hear of it and employed natural remedies to ensure the girl’s survival. This, Jackson writes, was a powerful form of resistance and part of a lineage of Black men and women fighting white supremacy in various ways. The book goes on to consider five such methods, with stories of activists using revolution, protection, force, flight and joy to subvert systemic racism. (Seal)
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