Africans and Native Americans
The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black PeoplesSecond Edition
The groundbreaking study of Native American-African contact and related ideas of race
Paper – $32
978-0-252-06321-3
eBook – $29.95
978-0-252-05100-5
Publication Date
Paperback: 03/01/1993
About the Book
This volume revises the way we look at the modern populations of Latin America and North America by providing a totally new view of the history of Native American and African American peoples throughout the hemisphere. Africans and Native Americans 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, which no longer carry their original meanings. Jack Forbes presents strong evidence that Native American and African contacts began in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean and that Native Americans may have crossed the Atlantic long before Columbus.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.Also by this author
Reviews
Blurbs
"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 makeup of this country."--Molefi K. Asante, author of Historical and Cultural Atlas of African Americans
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