When We Are Kin: The History and Future of Afro-Indigenous Solidarity

When We Are Kin: The History and Future of Afro-Indigenous SolidarityA bold vision for a Black and Indigenous future rooted in real solidarity, a future that exists beyond the confines of the liberal imagination Current advocates of reparations for slavery and land back often fail to scrutinize racial capitalism and settler colonialism, instead accepting that their destinies will forever be tied to US empire. But as scholar Kyle T. Mays insists in When We Are Kin, we can and should demand a kind of repair that goes

The Book of Delights is about our shared bonds

as an ancient magic returns to Ahiranya and threatens its very foundations

is catching his far-fetched dream of being an actor

but as his carefully built new life begins to crumble

Nostalgic but unflinching

Beautifully weaving together haunting stories of survival and loss

a sinister haunting

Perfect for curious minds

it seems futile—until Motoi dives deep into his research and learns that

seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X

an audacious

"Like [Octavia] Butler's fiction