Afro-Indigenous Studies

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 An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States 

 An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States covers the intersectionality of African American and American Indigenous Peoples' culture, history, life, and social justice movements. The author presents an antiracist/decolonized overview of the combined contributions of African American, Afro-American, and American Indigenous Peoples to the United States and the globe. 

Mays, Kyle T. An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021. E-book

Mays, Kyle T. An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021. Print

Resources

Oxford Bibliographies A bibliographic driven database that provides access to annotated research guides in African Studies, Latino Studies, Indigenous Peoples, Public Health and other topics:

Native Americans and African Americans -- DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780190280024-0038

Native Americans and Africans -- DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0285

Native American Histories in North America -- DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0157

Red Atlantic -- DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0333

Captivity in North America -- DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0148

Interracial Marriage in the Atlantic World -- DOI: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0279

Bibliography

Essential

Mays, Kyle T.  An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2021.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An indigenous Peoples' History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2014.

Katz, William Loren. Black Indians : A Hidden Heritage. Atheneum, 1986.

Deloria, Vine. Custer Died for Your Sins : An Indian Manifesto. University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.

Cannon Sarita. Black-Native Autobiographical Acts : Navigating the Minefields of Authenticity. Lexington Books, 2021.

Monceaux, Morgan and Ruth Katcher. My Heroes My People : African Americans and Native Americans in the West. Frances Foster Books, 1999.

Forbes, Jack D. Africans and Native Americans : The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples. 2nd ed. University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Eagle Shield, Alayna et al. Education in Movement Spaces : Standing Rock to Chicago Freedom Square. Routledge, 2020.

Mays, Kyle. Hip Hop Beats Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America. State University of New York Press, 2018.

Rifkin, Mark. Fictions of Land and Flesh : Blackness Indigeneity Speculation. Duke University Press, 2019.

Suggested

Benjamin, Thomas. The Atlantic World : Europeans Africans Indians and Their Shared History 1400-1900. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Blansett, Kent et al. Indian Cities : Histories of Indigenous Urbanization. University of Oklahoma Press, 2022.

Buchanan, Shonda. Black Indian : A Memoir. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2019.

Chang, David A. The Color of the Land : Race Nation and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma 1832-1929. University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Coleman, Arica L. That the Blood Stay Pure : African Americans Native Americans and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia. Indiana University Press, 2013.

Davis, Darnella. Untangling a Red White and Black Heritage : A Personal History of the Allotment Era. First ed. University of New Mexico Press, 2018.

Dickerson, Christina. Black Indians and Freedmen : The African Methodist Episcopal Church and Indigenous Americans 1816-1916. University of Illinois Press, 2021.

Field, Kendra Taira. Growing Up with the Country : Family Race and Nation After the Civil War. Yale University Press, 2018.

Goodwin, Robert. Crossing the Continent 1527-1540 : The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South. 1st ed. Harper, 2008.

Gump, James O. The Dust Rose Like Smoke : The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux. Second ed. University of Nebraska Press, 2016. 

Hebblethwaite, Benjamin and Silke Jansen. Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press 2023.

Hayes, Katherine Howlett. Slavery Before Race : Europeans Africans and Indians at Long Island's Sylvester Manor Plantation 1651-1884. New York University Press, 2013.  

hooks, bell. Black Looks : Race and Representation. Routledge, 2015.

King, Tiffany Lethabo. The Black Shoals : Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies. Duke University Press, 2019. 

Krauthamer, Barbara. Black Slaves Indian Masters : Slavery Emancipation and Citizenship in the Native American South. University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 

Lief, Shane and John McCusker. Jockomo : The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians. University Press of Mississippi, 2019.

May, Katja. African Americans and Native Americans in the Creek and Cherokee Nations, 1830s to 1920s : Collision and Collusion. Garland Pub, 1996.

Mays, Kyle T. City of Dispossessions : Indigenous Peoples African Americans and the Creation of Modern Detroit. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.

Miles, Tiya. Ties That Bind : The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Second ed. University of California Press, 2015.  

Miles, Larry L. W.  Afro and Indigenous Intersectionality in America As Nomen : Intersectionally Black. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023.

Miles, Tiya and Sharon Patricia Holland. Crossing Waters Crossing Worlds : The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Duke University Press, 2006.

Minges, Patrick N. Slavery in the Cherokee Nation : The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People 1855-1867. Routledge, 2003.

Naylor, Celia E. African Cherokees in Indian Territory : From Chattel to Citizens. University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

Parent, Anthony S and Ulrike Wiethaus. Trauma and Resilience in American Indian and African American Southern History. Peter Lang 2013.

Piecuch, Jim. Three Peoples One King : Loyalists Indians and Slaves in the Revolutionary South 1775-1782. University of South Carolina Press, 2008.

Prud'homme-Cranford, Rain et al. Louisiana Creole Peoplehood : Afro-Indigeneity and Community. University of Washington Press, 2022.

Reese, Linda Williams. Trail Sisters : Freedwomen in Indian Territory 1850-1890. Texas Tech University Press, 2013. 

Roberts, Alania E.  I've Been Here All the While : Black Freedom on Native Land. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021.

Saunt, Claudio. Black White and Indian : Race and the Unmaking of an American Family. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Warren, Kim Cary. The Quest for Citizenship : African American and Native American Education in Kansas 1880-1935. University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

Wickett, Murray R. Contested Territory : Whites Native Americans and African Americans in Oklahoma 1865-1907. Louisiana State University Press, 2000.

Wilson, Ty and Karen Coody Cooper. Oklahoma : Black Cherokees. History Press, 2017.

Yarbrough, Fay A. Race and the Cherokee Nation : Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

Zellar, Gary. African Creeks : Estelvste and the Creek Nation. University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.