Antiracist resistance has been a central engine of democratic politics for five centuries.

Evidence

For the past half-millennium, refusal of slavery, resistance to colonialism, noncompliance with racial domination, fidelity to oppositional cultural traditions and alternative concepts of group and individual identity, and belief in racial solidarity have been some of the most crucial sources of insurgency, some of the central passions underlying emancipatory and democratic politics, both in the United States and around the world. — Michael Omi, Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States, 149