Pointing out that presumptions of solidarity, antagonism, or incommensurability between Black and Native communities are insufficient to understand the relationships between both groups, this volume's scholars, artist, and activists investigate the complex relationships between settler colonialism and anti-Blackness to explore the political possibilities that emerge from such inquiries.

Introduction. Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality / Tiffany Lethabo King, Jenell Navarro, and Andrea Smith  1 Part I. Boundless Bodies 1. Stayed | Freedom | Hallelujah / Ashon Crawley  27 2. Reading the Dead: A Feminist Black Critique of Global Capital / Denise Ferreira da Silva  38 3. Staying Ready for Black Study / Frank B. Wilderson III and Tiffany Lethabo King  52 Part II. Boundless Ontologies 4. New World Grammars: The "Unthought" Black Discourses of Conquest / Tiffany Lethabo King  77 5. The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign / Jared Sexton  94 6. Sovereignty as Deferred Genocide / Andrea Smith  118 7. Murder and Metaphysics: Leslie Marmon Silko's "Tony's Story" and Audre Lorde's "Power" / Chad Benito Infante  133 8. Black Malpractice (or, the Fugitive Sacred) / J. Kameron Carter  158 Part III. Boundless Socialities 9. Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific / Maile Arvin  213 10. "What's Past Is Prologue": Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive / Sandra Harvey  218 11. Indian Country's Apartheid / Cedric Sunray  236 12. "Ugh! Maskoke People and Our Pervasive Anti-Black Racism . . . Let the Language Teach Us!" / Marcus Briggs-Cloud 13. Mississippian Black Metal Grl on a Friday Night with Artist's Statement / Hotvlkuce Harjo  291 Part IV. Boundless Kinship 14. The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey / Jenelle Navarro and Kimberly Robertson 15. Slay Serigraph with Artist's Statement / Kimberly Robertson  320 16. Mass Incarceration since 1492 / Jenell Navarro and Kimberly Robertson  322 17. "Liberation," Cover of Queer Indigenous Girl, Volume 4, and "Roots," Cover of Black Indigenous Boy, Volume 2 / Se'mana Thompson  330 18. Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism / Lindsay Nixon  332 19. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Decolonial Project / Rinaldo Walcott  343 20. Building Maroon Intellectual Communities / Chris Finley  362 About the Authors  371 Index  

“Ambitious, theoretically sophisticated, and timely, Otherwise Worlds stages a much-needed conversation between Black studies and Native studies as they interface with critical race theory and gender and queer theory while significantly advancing the discourses around racialized being, anti-blackness, Indigeneity, and settler colonialism.”