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\nAn Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays
\n\nThe first inters ectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America
\nBeginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism\, A fro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the U S are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism\, and that these par allel oppressions continue into the present. He explores how Black and Ind igenous peoples have always resisted and struggled for freedom\, sometimes together\, and sometimes apart. Whether to end African enslavement and In digenous removal or eradicate capitalism and colonialism\, Mays show how t he fervor of Black and Indigenous peoples calls for justice have consisten tly sought to uproot white supremacy.
\nMays uses a wide-array of hi storical activists and pop culture icons\, &ldquo\;sacred&rdquo\; texts\, and foundational texts like the \;Declaration of Independence \;an d \;Democracy in America. He covers the civil rights movement and free dom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s\, and explores current debates around the use of Native American imagery and the cultural appropriation of Blac k culture. Mays compels us to rethink both our history as well as contempo rary debates and to imagine the powerful possibilities of Afro-Indigenous solidarity.
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