CITY LIGHTS LIVE! Kyle T. Mays in conversation with Paul Ortiz

Описание: City Lights celebrates Kyle T. Mays new book "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States" published by Beacon Press

The first intersectional 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.

Kyle T. Mays is an Afro-Indigenous (Saginaw Chippewa) writer and scholar of US history, urban studies, race relations, and contemporary popular culture. He is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America.

Paul Ortiz is a professor of history at the University of Florida where he teaches undergraduate courses and supervises graduate fields in African American history, Latina/o & Latinx history, comparative ethnic studies, U.S. South, labor, social movement theory, oral history, digital humanities, ethnography and other topics. He is the author of numerous books including "An African American and Latinx History of the United States", which received the 2018 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence.

To learn more about "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States" visit this link:
https://citylights.com/new-nonfiction...

This event was originally broadcast in the zoom platform on Tuesday, November 9, 2021 and was hosted by Josiah Alderete.

This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation.