Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples / Edition 2

by Jack D. Forbes

Overview

Jack D. Forbes's monumental Africans and Native Americans has become a canonical text in the study of relations between the two groups. Forbes explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of color, analyzing the development of color classification systems and the specific evolution of key terms such as black, mulatto, and mestizo—terms that no longer carry their original meanings. Forbes also presents strong evidence that Native American and African contacts began in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252063213
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	03/01/1993
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Jack D. Forbes (d. 2011) was a professor emeritus and the director of Native American studies at the University of California-Davis. He was the author of Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism and Terrorism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments      vi
Introduction      1
1   Africans and Americans: Inter-Continental Contacts Across the Atlantic, to 1500      6
2   The Intensification of Contacts: Trans-Atlantic Slavery and Interaction, after 1500      26
3   Negro, Black and Moor: The Evolution of These Terms as Applied to Native Americans and Others      65
4   Loros, Pardos and Mestizos: Classifying Brown Peoples      93
5   The Mulato Concept: Origin and Initial Use      131
6   Part-Africans and Part-Americans as Mulatos      151
7   The Classification of Native Americans as Mulattoes in Anglo-North America      190
8   Mustees, Half-Breeds and Zambos     221
9   Native Americans as Pardos and People of Color      239
10   African-American Contacts and the Modern Re-Peopling of the Americas      265
Notes      272
Bibliography      315
Index      335

Editorial Reviews

"A great piece of scholarship, a refreshing analysis of race in the Americas, and a significant advance in the understanding of Africans and Americans in the ethnic make-up of this country."—Molefi K. Asante, author of Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans
 

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