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

This volume will revise 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 this title

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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

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