Historical race concepts
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historical-race-concepts-185-3166882
title:
Historical race concepts
text:
The concept of race as a categorization of anatomically modern humans has an extensive history in Europe and the Americas. The contemporary word race itself is modern; historically it was used in the sense of "nation, ethnic group" during the 16th to 19th centuries. Race acquired its modern meaning in the field of physical anthropology through scientific racism starting in the 19th century. With the rise of modern genetics, the concept of distinct human races in a biological sense has become obs
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Disused conception of a person's racial or ethnic makeup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_race_concepts
date created:
2003-12-21T05:56:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T13:58:18Z
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