About this episode

Alex Young interviews historian Kellie Carter Jackson about her book on Black resistance and the role of firearms in the civil rights struggle.

In this episode of Guns Unpacked, Alex Young interviews historian Kellie Carter Jackson, the Michael and Denise Kellen ’68 Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Wellesley College. Their discussion focuses on Dr. Carter Jackson’s award-winning 2024 book, We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance. The conversation ranges over topics including the role of firearms in the civil rights struggle, the relationship between Black refusal and resistance, and Black Americans’ complicated relationship to US gun culture at large.

People in this episode

Host: Alex Young

Guest: Kellie Carter Jackson

Topics covered

• Black resistance
• firearms in civil rights
• US gun culture
• historical perspectives
• politics of force

Keywords

• Black resistance
• civil rights
• firearms
• gun culture
• Kellie Carter Jackson

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wellesley College

Books & works: We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

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