Table of Contents

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

About the Author

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.

Reviews

 "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