University of Illinois Press

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Author:

Jack D. Forbes

Edition:

Second Edition

Pub Date:

1993

Pages:

352 pages

Native and Indigenous Studies Southern History & Culture Anthropology Language & Linguistics African Studies Caribbean Studies History, Am.: Colonial History, Am.: 19th C. History, European African American Studies See all Subjects

Africans and Native Americans

The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples

The groundbreaking work on Native American-African contact and ideas of race in early modern times

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.

"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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Jack D. Forbes was the director of Native American studies at the University of California-Davis and the author of Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism and Terrorism.

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