"Robin D.G. Kelley’s history 'from below' of the everyday strategies of resistance practiced by member of the black working class in the workplace and in public space lays the groundwork for detecting modes of resistance that fall beneath the radar screen. His work allows us to see some of the paradoxical ways that racial discrimination placed its underclass in potentially subversive, because hidden, positions, such as the upper balcony of the segregated movie theater."

Recommended by Elizabeth Abel, Professor of English and author of Signs of the Times: The Visual Politics of Jim Crow.