Color terminology for race

Common card · No. 241797

Skin colour classifications of human groups have been used in historical racial classifications. The number of categories was long recognized as subjective, and ethnic groups were placed in categories at different points throughout history. François Bernier (1684) questioned the validity of using skin colour as a racial characteristic, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1795) was associated with the five-colour categorization "Aethiopian or Black", "Caucasian or White", "Mongolian or Yellow", "American or Red", and "Malayan or Brown" subgroups, and Charles Darwin (1871) emphasized the gradual differences between categories. There is broad agreement among modern scientists that typological conceptions of race have no scientific basis.

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