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

Jack D. Forbes (Author)

9780252063213

Paperback / softback, published 1 March 1993

352 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.454 kg

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.

Acknowledgments 
 
 
 
 
vi
Introduction 
 
 
 
 
1
1 
 
Africans and Americans: Inter-Continental Contacts Across the Atlantic, to 1500 
 
 
 
 
6
2 
 
The Intensification of Contacts: Trans-Atlantic Slavery and Interaction, after 1500 
 
 
 
 
26
3 
 
Negro, Black and Moor: The Evolution of These Terms as Applied to Native Americans and Others 
 
 
 
65
4 
 
Loros, Pardos and Mestizos: Classifying Brown Peoples 
 
 
 
93
5 
 
The Mulato Concept: Origin and Initial Use 
 
 
 
131
6 
 
Part-Africans and Part-Americans as Mulatos 
 
 
 
151
7 
 
The Classification of Native Americans as Mulattoes in Anglo-North America 
 
 
 
190
8 
 
Mustees, Half-Breeds and Zambos 
 
 
 
221
9 
 
Native Americans as Pardos and People of Color 
 
 
 
239
10 
 
African-American Contacts and the Modern Re-Peopling of the Americas 
 
 
 
265
Notes 
 
 
 
272
Bibliography 
 
 
 
315
Index 
 
 
 
335