Black-brown unity (or black-brown-red unity) is a racial-political ideology which pushes for activist alliances between peoples of full or partial African descent, usually African Americans and other African diaspora/Atlantic slave trade-descendant communities in the Americas, with peoples of full or partial Indigenous American descent in opposition to statuses quo which seem to favor American peoples of European descent at the expense of those of black, brown or red descent. Such alliances are justified by their proponents through similar experiences of cultural repression and economic exploitation since the advent of major European settlement and exploration of the Americas.