Episode 12: Afro-Indigenous History of the U.S. | Dr. Kyle T. Mays, Part 2

Assistant Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at UCLA, the best way to introduce Kyle T. Mays is with a quote from the distinguished documentarian Raoul Peck, director of I Am Not Your Negro and Exterminate All the Brutes, who writes, "Only twenty years ago, Kyle Mays’s voice wouldn’t even have passed through academia’s and media’s gatekeepers. The fact that a voice like this can be heard today and tell his own story is unexpected great news for America . . . and it’s just the beginning.” Kyle T. Mays wrote "An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States.” Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz calls it "required reading to comprehend the deep historical relationship between the Indigenous peoples who were transported from Africa into chattel slavery and the Indigenous peoples who were displaced by European settler colonialism."