An Afro-Indigenous history of the United States / Kyle T. Mays.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-222) and index.

Afro-Indigenous History -- Indigenous Africans and Native Americans in Prerevolutionary America -- Antiblackness, Settler Colonialism, and the US Democratic Project -- Enslavement, Dispossession, Resistance -- Black and Indigenous (Inter)Nationalisms during the Progressive Era -- Black Americans and Native Americans in the Civil Right Imagination -- Black Power and Red Power, Freedom and Sovereignty -- Black and Indigenous Popular Cultures in the Public Sphere -- The Matter of Black and Indigenous Lives, Policing, and Justice -- The Possibilities for Afro-Indigenous Futures -- Sovereignty and Citizenship: The Case of the Five Tribes and the Freedmen.

"Mays explores the relationship and differences between the Black American quest for freedom and the Native American struggle for sovereignty in the U.S"--