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Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize

In what readers call a “chilling and revelatory” account

the challenges of documenting Black women’s ancestry

deepening its emotional resonance and exploring the meanings and significance of everything it contained

Paired with the vivid

We Refuse cid_6161 Longlisted for the Griffin PoetryAn unsparing, erudite, and incisive (Jelani Cobb) reframing of the past and present of Black resistanceboth nonviolent and violentto white supremacy A Kirkus Best Nonfiction Book of 2024. 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 to move past this false choice, offering an