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American Descendants <strong>of</strong> Slavery (ADOS), 177–78<br />
American Dream, 104–5<br />
American Indian Conference, 80, 118<br />
American Indian Movement (AIM), 80, 109, 112, 122, 132, 165. See also Native Americans;<br />
resistance<br />
American Revolution (1775–83), 8, 10, 15–16, 37, 96, 97, 201n38<br />
<strong>An</strong>derson, Claud, 33<br />
<strong>An</strong>derson, Larry, 130<br />
<strong>An</strong>derson, William, 170<br />
<strong>An</strong>gelou, Maya, 35<br />
anger, xxiii, 21, 101, 142, 185. See also fear<br />
<strong>An</strong>ishinaabe, 39–41, 130, 132, 136, 170<br />
<strong>An</strong>ishinaabe, Michi Saagiig, 92<br />
antiblackness: Baldwin on, 101; Cuffe and, 13; experienced by author, xi; Harris on, xviii–xix; by<br />
Jefferson, 23; King on, 85–86; by Native Americans, 174; negro, as term, 22; “n*gg*r,” as term,<br />
147–48, 151; Tocqueville on, 28; ubiquity <strong>of</strong>, 187. See also police violence; racism<br />
anti-<strong>Indigenous</strong>: in Declaration <strong>of</strong> Independence, 22–23; “playing Indian,” 84, 134, 137, 153–54; R-<br />
word, 84, 150–52; sports team mascots and, 3, 84, 137, 140, 153–54, 156–57; ubiquity <strong>of</strong>, 187.<br />
See also racism<br />
anti-racism, 111, 168<br />
apar<strong>the</strong>id, 104, 130–31, 169, 171–72, 215n72<br />
“<strong>An</strong> Appeal to <strong>the</strong> Soul <strong>of</strong> White America” (Garvey), 65<br />
Aquinnah Wampanoag, 12<br />
Armstrong, Samuel C., 51<br />
As Black as Resistance (Samudzi and <strong>An</strong>derson), 170<br />
Ashanti, 12, 13<br />
Asheville, North Carolina, 176<br />
Asian American community, 53, 108, 123, 135, 138, 171, 172<br />
assassinations: <strong>of</strong> Black Pan<strong>the</strong>rs, 124; <strong>of</strong> King, 118; <strong>of</strong> Malcolm X, 96, 104, 114, 122<br />
assimilation, 60, 111. See also boarding schools; erasure<br />
Assiniboine, 118<br />
Atlanta “Braves,” 84<br />
The Atlantic (publication), 176–77<br />
atmospheric violence, 159. See also police violence<br />
Attucks, Crispus, 5, 14–16, 201n38<br />
Aunt Jemima, 155<br />
author’s positionality, ix–xii, 76, 187<br />
The Autobiography <strong>of</strong> Malcolm X (Malcolm X), 82, 90–91, 92–93, 98<br />
Baamewaawaagizhigokwe, 39–41<br />
“Back to Africa” bill, 57<br />
Bacon, Nathaniel, xvi<br />
Bacon’s Rebellion (1676), xvi–xvii, 197n17<br />
Baldwin, James, 81, 100–107, 169<br />
banking, 180, 220n30. See also capitalism<br />
Bank <strong>of</strong> America, 152<br />
Banks, Dennis, 109, 122–23, 124<br />
Barber, William J., II, 181<br />
“Bars Fight” (Terry), 11<br />
baseball team mascots, 84. See also sports team mascots