Kyle T. Mays (Black/Saginaw Anishinaabe) is an Assistant Professor at UCLA and a transdisciplinary scholar and public intellectual of urban history, Indigenous Studies, Afro-Indigenous Studies, and popular culture. 

 

He recently published his first book, Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America (SUNY Press, 2018). He is finishing his second book titled, The Indigenous Motor City: Indigenous People and the Making of Modern Detroit (under contract with the University of Washington Press). He is also working on a new book project tentatively titled, Black Belonging, Indigenous Sovereignty: Black American and Indigenous Histories in Unexpected Places. This book explores the relationship between Black Americans and Indigenous peoples, moving from the foundations of the United States until the present. 

 

His lecture at Dartmouth will be titled: "When Did Black People Lose their Indigeneity?: Reimagining Black and Indigenous Histories."