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    sur l'inégalité des races humaines (Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, 1853–1855) is a racist and pseudoscientific work of French writer Arthur...
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    Arthur de Gobineau (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    writer, he was an elitist who, in the immediate aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848, wrote An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races. In it he argued...
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  • Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race (1916); Arthur de Gobineau's An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853); the various writings of Lothrop...
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    Semitic people (redirect from Semitic Races)
    of essays explores the now mostly extinct notion of Semites. Invented in the nineteenth century and essential to the making of modern conceptions of religion...
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  • considerations. Scientific racism of the late 19th and early 20th centuries divided humans into three races based on "common physical characteristics":...
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  • Aryan race (category CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of April 2024)
    Gobineau published An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, in which he originally identified the Aryan race as the white race, and the only civilized...
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    superior to other human "races". The theory and the book were praised by Adolf Hitler and other Nazis. The first section deals with the basis of race as well...
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    Master race (redirect from The master race)
    An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races. Expanding upon Boulainvilliers' use of ethnography to defend the Ancien Régime against the claims of the...
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  • races humaines (Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, published 1853–55), which would later influence Adolf Hitler, the French aristocrat Arthur de...
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  • categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. The term came into...
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    speech on the caste system in India at their annual conference in 1936. Ambedkar wrote the speech as an essay under the title "Annihilation of Caste"...
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    followed a long line of European racist authors, including Arthur de Gobineau (author of An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races) but his most important...
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    Martial race (redirect from Martial Races)
    fighting, while the 'non-martial races' were those races which the British considered unfit for battle because of their sedentary lifestyles. The British had...
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  • theory of human origins which posits the view that the human races are of different origins (polygenesis). This view is opposite to the idea of monogenism...
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  • Australo-Melanesian (category Historical definitions of race)
    of inequality (racism) that emerge from such beliefs, are among the most damaging elements in the human experience both today and in the past." The term...
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    in Asia: The Discourse of 'Negritos' in Early Nineteenth-century Southeast Asia". In Hägerdal, Hans (ed.). Responding to the West: Essays on Colonial...
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    Contemporary Uses. London: Anness Publishing. p. 212. ISBN 0754810623. "Hate Symbols: Life Rune - From A Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos and...
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  • Armenoid race (category Historical definitions of race)
    The Armenoid race was a supposed sub-race in the context of a now-outdated model of dividing humanity into different races which was developed originally...
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    François Bernier (category Explorers of India)
    and Ninon de Lenclos. His much-debated 1684 essay on "races", "A New Division of the Earth"—of which the second half is dedicated to feminine beauty—may...
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    Dinaric race (category History of the Balkans)
    of Europe. Examples of Dinarics (plates 35–43) from Coon's The Races of Europe Renato Biasutti on Caucasoid Subraces preserved at the Internet Archive...
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    Craniometry (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    the translator of Arthur de Gobineau's An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853–1855), which is one of the founding works of the group of studies...
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    Olive skin (category Human skin color)
    Olive skin is a human skin colour spectrum. It is often associated with pigmentation in the Type III to Type IV and Type V ranges of the Fitzpatrick scale...
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  • de Gobineau publishes his An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races in which he divides the human species into three races, black, white, and yellow;...
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    Nazi human experimentation was a series of medical experiments on prisoners by Nazi Germany in its concentration camps mainly between 1942 and 1945. There...
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    The Races of Europe: A Sociological Study is a 1899 book published by American economist, lecturer, and racial anthropologist William Z. Ripley. The book...
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  • The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological...
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    Hamites (redirect from Hamitic races)
    Through craniometry conducted on thousands of human skulls, Samuel George Morton argued that the differences between the races were too broad to have stemmed...
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    such as the French novelist and diplomat Arthur de Gobineau, who published a four-volume work titled An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (translated...
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  • Race in France (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from December 2020)
    separation of races. In his Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races, de Gobineau does not rely on the presence of physiological differences between races, but...
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    five races, citing the enormous complexity of classifying races. The concept of a "Malay race" differs with that of the ethnic Malays centered on Malaya...
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