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
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.
"A great piece of scholarship, a refreshing analysis of race
in the Americas, and a significant advance in the understanding of
Africans and Americans in the ethnic make-up of this
country."--Molefi K. Asante, author of Historical and Cultural
Atlas of African Americans
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