Kyle Mays, who teaches at the African American Studies Department and the Native American Center at UCLA, says Hip Hop “builds solidarity between the two communities,” which share a complex history of slavery, displacement and state violence. Mays is author of the book, Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in North America.Water rights and climate change are connected with larger political empowerment issues. “We need to somehow deal with the issue of returning land to native peoples,” said Mays, who is of Black and Native American ancestry.
Despite academia’s inherent racism, black scholars have figured out ways to work within these institutions.
Schizoanalysis opens up new alliances (approximations) in the uneasy overlaps of neurodiversity and black life.
The Broadway show is a fiction and bamboozlement: Hamilton was a depraved enslaver of people, just like most of the Founders of the White Settler State.
Public health departments will be hard-pressed to overcome existing racial and class disparities in health care and to address to structural racism.
The TPLF was a “darling” of the West, especially the US and UK.
