Kyle T. Mays (Black/Saginaw Anishinaabe) is currently an Assistant Professor in the departments of African American Studies and American Indian Studies at UCLA. He is a transdisciplinary scholar that works at the intersection of Afro-Indigenous Studies, Urban Indigenous Studies, and Indigenous Hip Hop culture. His book Indigenous Detroit: Indigeneity, Gender, and Race and the Making of a Modern American City is under contract with the University of Washington Press. His first book was Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America. You can follow him on Twitter: @mays_kyle.
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