Envisioning Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty

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This workshop seeks to examine the intersection of Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty as logics and movements of abolition! We will consider the ways in which lateral oppression/harm between Black and Native communities (within the context of the U.S.) have been used as tools of white supremacy, settler colonial, and racial capitalism. And finally, we will explore how we can move from simply envisioning a post-colonial world to realizing an authentic liberated Black future and an actualized sovereign Indigenous future.

Note: This class is at 1:30pm ET rather than the usual 12pm ET.

Resources:

Books/Literary Texts/Articles

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle Mays
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell
Black Indians: A Hidden Heritage by William L. Katz
Curriculum Strategies for Black Liberation by James A. Banks
The School Review: The Future of Education for Black Americans by The University of Chicago Press
The Combahee River Collective Statement copyright © 1978 by Zillah Eisenstein.
Decolonization is not a metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
Envisioning Black Liberation and Indigenous Sovereignty by Amber Starks
Peoplehood: A Model for the Extension of Sovereignty in American Indian Studies by Holm, Pearson, and Chavis
The Political Dimensions of Black Liberation by James M. Jones (The Black Scholar)
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Toward A Global Idea of Race by Denise Ferreira da Silva
Toward Black Liberation by Stokely Carmichael
Whiteness as Property by Cheryl I. Harris
UNDRIP (United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples): [Human, Civil, and Indigenous Rights by Duane Champagne
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/wicazosareview.28.1.0009)(UNDRIP)

Who/What to Follow

Amber Starks (aka Melanin Mvskoke)

Amber Starks is an Afro Indigenous (Black and Native American) advocate and organizer. She is an enrolled citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and is also of Shawnee, Yuchi, Quapaw, and Cherokee descent. Her passion is the intersection of Black and Native identity, where she seeks to normalize, affirm, and uplift the multidimensional identities of Black and Native peoples and to encourage Black and Indigenous peoples to prioritize one another and divest from compartmentalizing struggles. Her pronouns are she/her/hers.