Conversations in Atlantic Theory • Kyle Mays on An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States

'A discussion with Kyle Mays, who teaches in the Departments of History, African American Studies, and American Indian Studies at University of California-Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California. He is the author of 2018’s Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America, published by State University of New York Press and a forthcoming book City of Dispossessions, an historical reflection on Black-Indigenous political and culture work in Detroit, Michigan. He is also the author of An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, published in late-2021 by Beacon Press, which is our topic of discussion in this podcast. We cover issues of comparative study, the complex mix of conflict and complement in the hyphen in “Afro-Indigenous,” the past of solidarity in struggle, and the future of the same.'