negroid
Sign in to saveNegroid (less commonly called Congoid) is an obsolete racial grouping of various people indigenous to Africa south of the area which stretched from the southern Sahara desert in the west to the African Great Lakes in the southeast, but also to isolated parts of South and Southeast Asia (Negritos). The term is derived from now-disproven conceptions of race as a biological category.
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"Negroid" is an outdated racial classification that was historically used to group together people indigenous to sub-Saharan Africa and certain populations in South and Southeast Asia, but the term is no longer used in modern science because the biological concept of race it was based on has been disproven. It matters historically as an example of how racial categories that once seemed scientific are now recognized as inaccurate and have been abandoned by contemporary researchers.
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- Etymology
- History of the concept
- Origins
- In the context of scientific racism
- Before Darwin
- In the age of evolutionary biology
- Franz Boas and ''The Race Question''
- <span class="anchor" id="Capoid"></span> Carleton Coon
- Cheikh Anta Diop and "Negroid" primacy
- Physical features
- General appearance
- Neoteny
- Athleticism
- Criticism
- Criticism based on modern genetics
- Further reading
- References
Negroid (less commonly called Congoid) is an obsolete racial grouping of various people indigenous to Africa south of the area which stretched from the southern Sahara desert in the west to the African Great Lakes in the southeast, but also to isolated parts of South and Southeast Asia (Negritos). The term is derived from now-disproven conceptions of race as a biological category.
The concept of dividing humans into three races called Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid (originally named "Ethiopian") was introduced in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen school of history and further developed by Western scholars in the context of "racist ideologies" during the age of colonialism.