An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States
Kyle T. Mays
Beacon Press
Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America, covering the civil rights movement and freedom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, and current debates around the use of Native American imagery and the cultural appropriation of Black culture, Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue into the present. Black and Indigenous peoples have always resisted and struggled for freedom, sometimes together, and sometimes apart -- both consistently seeking to uproot white supremacy. Mays compels us to rethink our history as well as contemporary debates and to imagine the powerful possibilities of Afro-Indigenous solidarity.