15 Minute History – Afro-Indigenous Histories of the US

Guest: Kyle Mays, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at UCLA

Host: Alina Scott, PhD Candidate in the History Department at the University of Texas at Austin

Afro-Indigenous histories are central to the history of the United States, tribal sovereignty, and civil rights. Today, Dr. Kyle Mays (Saginaw Chippewa) author of An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States and Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America, discusses the intersections of Black and Indigenous history through the lens of individuals whose lives existed at those intersections.

Episode 136: Afro-Indigenous Histories of the US