African American-American Indian relations
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: African Americans, Blacks, Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Native Americans, American Indians
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, African American History, American Indian History
- Geographical Location: United States
Article abstract: Traditional American racial history, by focusing on Indian-white or black-white relations, has ignored the important cultural contributions of Indian-black interaction
The failure of scholars seriously to research cultural contact between Native Americans and Africans resettled in the Americas is attributable in part to disciplinary specialization, but some fault also lies with ethnocentrism. Historians and anthropologists interested in studying African Americans or American Indians usually viewed their topic in relation to white culture. The...
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