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

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University of Illinois Press, Mar 1, 1993 - Social Science - 352 pages
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.
 

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Acknowledgements
InterContinental Contacts Across the Atlantic
TransAtlantic Slavery and Interaction
The Evolution of These Terms as Applied to Native
Classifying Brown Peoples
Origin and Initial
PartAfricans and PartAmericans as Mulatos
The Classification of Native Americans as Mulattoes in AngloNorth
Mustees HalfBreeds and Zambos
Native Americans as Pardos and People of Color
AfricanAmerican Contacts and the Modern RePeopling of the Americas
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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.