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Black/Indian Relations: An Overview of the Scholarship
Author(s) -
Jones Rhett S.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
transforming anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 1548-7466
pISSN - 1051-0559
DOI - 10.1525/tran.2001.10.1.2
Subject(s) - scholarship , african descent , race (biology) , gender studies , latin americans , political science , sociology , international relations , ethnology , law , politics
Based on a review of the literature, this paper presents an overview of the scholarship on relations between persons of African descent and Native Americans in the Americas. Study of these relations, spread over a number of different disciplines, shaped by the changing interests of these disciplines, has been episodic and seldom continuous. These studies have examined relations between Blacks and Indians in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the northern and the southern areas of what is now the United States. There have also been studies of mixed‐race persons, some of which romanticize Black/Indian relations or attempt to show one suffered more than the other. Other studies use the Indian experience to understand Blacks and the black experience to understand Indians. Finally, there are studies that focus on relations among all three peoples.