Rethinking the Red Power Movement

This book examines Red Power ideology with a focus on its many forms of solidarity with African Americans, the role of gender in shaping the movement, its international expansion, and its current meaning in contemporary activism.

Matching the foundational work of Smith and Warrior, Hitchmough and Mays’ book robustly advances the field of Red Power studies.

Hitting virtual and physical shelves over the 50th anniversary of some of the most famous Red Power protests, this book will change for ever the way you think about this important indigenous rights movement, and related struggles - in the past, present and the future.

Hitchmough and May’s critical intervention into Red Power studies and history will change the way we think about this movement, and its relationship with black civil rights and the US as a nation.

Gyorgy Toth , author of From Wounded Knee to Checkpoint Charlie .

Sam Hitchmough is an Associate Professor of Modern U.S. History at the University of Bristol, UK. He is a scholar of Indigenous history, particularly activism since 1944, as well as being interested in memory, national narratives, counter-narratives, and popular culture.

Kyle T. Mays (Saginaw Chippewa) is an Associate Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a scholar of Afro-Indigenous history, urban studies, and contemporary popular culture. He is the author of City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit (2022).