email me the piece i studey anthropology and archaeology ----- Original Message ----- From: Thurman & Elizabeth Harrison <harriso5@ix.netcom.com> To: <CHAHTA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 5:42 PM Subject: Re: [CHAHTA] twinkies > I have been pursuing some research topics; and I have found some interesting > works. One in particular is well documented piece of scholarship by Jack D. > Forbes "who is of Native American" ancestry and is "director of Native > Americal Studies at the University of California, Davis." The work, in > particular, that I have just started to read is "Africans and Native > Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples", 2nd > Edition. Univ. of Illinois Press, 1993. > > The 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 specific evolution of > key terms which no longer carry their original meanings. > > Has any one on the list read the work and/or know anything about the author > and his prior scholarship? > > If anyone has read or is interested in reading this piece; I would be > welcome an opportunity to read and discuss it with you --either off-list (if > it's not adjudged an allowable topic) or on-list (if it is accpeted as a > discussion item). > > The book should be availabe from the library. > > thurman > > > ==== CHAHTA Mailing List ==== > Choctaw Home Page: > http://freepages.cultures.rootsweb.com/~choctaw/ >