Kyle T. Mays

Kyle T. Mays (he/him) is an Afro-Indigenous (Saginaw Chippewa) writer and scholar of Afro-Indigenous history, urban studies, and contemporary popular culture. He is a Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author the five books, including When We Are Kin: The History and Future of Afro-Indigenous Solidarity (Haymarket, 2026), Rethinking the Red Power Movement with Sam Hitchmough Routledge, 2024), City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and theCreation of Modern Detroit (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), An Afro-IndigenousHistory of the United States (Beacon Press, 2021), and Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America (SUNY Press, 2018).