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An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States / Kyle T. Mays.

Mays, Kyle T., 1987- (author.).

Summary:

"Mays explores the relationship and differences between the Black American quest for freedom and the Native American struggle for sovereignty in the U.S"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780807011683
ISBN: 0807011681
Physical Description: xxv, 240 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, [2021]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-222) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Afro-Indigenous History -- Indigenous Africans and Native Americans in Prerevolutionary America -- Antiblackness, Settler Colonialism, and the US Democratic Project -- Enslavement, Dispossession, Resistance -- Black and Indigenous (Inter)Nationalisms during the Progressive Era -- Black Americans and Native Americans in the Civil Right Imagination -- Black Power and Red Power, Freedom and Sovereignty -- Black and Indigenous Popular Cultures in the Public Sphere -- The Matter of Black and Indigenous Lives, Policing, and Justice -- The Possibilities for Afro-Indigenous Futures -- Sovereignty and Citizenship: The Case of the Five Tribes and the Freedmen.