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

Forbes, Jack D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 025206321X ISBN 13: 9780252063213

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1993

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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.

From the Back Cover

Africans and Native Americans (the book) 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 025206321X
• ISBN 13: 9780252063213
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352