'Decolonizing Hip Hop: How Hip Hop Is Changing Indigenous North America' Presentation May 2
SALISBURY, MD---Dr. Kyle Mays, postdoctoral fellow in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s History Department, is the next speaker in ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥’s Thomas E. Bellavance Honors Program Lecture Series.
His presentation, “Decolonizing Hip Hop: How Hip Hop Is Changing Indigenous North America,” is 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, in Conway Hall Room 152.
A transdisciplinary scholar of U.S. history, critical ethnic studies, Afro-indigenous studies and indigenous popular culture, Mays is the author of two forthcoming books: Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America (SUNY Press, 2018), Indigenous Detroit: Indigeneity, Race, Gender and the Making of a Modern American City (under contract with the University of Washington Press).
He also is co-editor of the upcoming anthology Decolonizing Hip Hop: Blackness and Indigeneity in Hip Hop Culture (under contract with Sense Publishers).
In addition, Mays writes regularly for public venues, including the Indian Country Today Media Network, Native Appropriations; Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society; and The Native Ninety Percent.
Sponsored by SU’s Honors College, admission to his talk is free and the public is invited. For more information call 410-677-6556 or visit the SU Honors College website at www.salisbury.edu/honors.