Professor: Tiya Miles

T, Th - 1:30pm to 2:45pm

In ways both charged and complex, Native Americans and African Americans together contributed the ground/work of the U.S. nation and the European colonies that preceded it. This course traces intertwined historical lines among Indigenous peoples and African-descended people within the borders of the present-day United States. We will discuss multiple regions, tribal nations, Black communities, and “mixed-race” families across the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries as well as contemporary memories, representations, and political dilemmas stemming from histories of colonization, enslavement, environmental degradation, and resistance. We will explore contacts, conflicts, relationships, collaborations, meanings of this multifaceted history to communities now, and historical aspects of Afro-futuristic and Indigenous-futuristic imaginings. Our readings will include primary documents, historical studies, cultural studies, memoirs, and novels.