Africans and Native Americans

by Forbes, Jack D.

• ISBN13: 9780252063213
• ISBN10: 025206321X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-05-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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