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

Resource ID: 2380

Type: book, non-fiction

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Black history, Indigenous history, mixed ancestry peoples, history, populations, race+ethnicity

author:

Jack D. Forbes

editor:

n/a

publisher:

University of Illinois Press

date:

3.1.1993

ISBN:

9780252063213

pages:

344

notes:

. . .

contents:

description:

This ground-breaking volume 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 evolution of specific terms including black, mulatto, mestizo, and moor, 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.

surnames:

Braveboy

CMOS:

Jack D. Forbes. Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples. 2nd ed. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

author-date:

Forbes 1993

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

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