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Sep 10, 2024 · Blumenbach’s own schema of five “races” gained widespread acceptance, but racist theorists have never managed to agree on a stable number of supposedly immutable races. By Blumenbach’s third edition, skin color played a large role in what was considered the science of race.
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21 hours ago · In the third edition of “On The Natural Varieties of Mankind,” published in 1795, German anatomist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach laid out what became canonical racial categories and anointed ...
Sep 18, 2024 · SL: So you’re asking me about Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, this famed naturalist who really begins the classification system we still kind of live with. He writes this thesis, 1795, and he inaugurates the term Caucasian for whiteness through it, creates a fivefold classification system.
2 days ago · The 1775 treatise "The Natural Varieties of Mankind", by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach proposed five major divisions: the Caucasoid race, the Mongoloid race, the Ethiopian race (later termed Negroid), the American Indian race, and the Malayan race, but he did not propose any hierarchy among the races. [62]
Sep 16, 2024 · The region, claimed as the homeland of white racial purity—owing to a 1795 tract by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach—had by then been revealed to be less homogeneous than...
1 day ago · The German Nazi Party adopted and developed several racist scientific racial hierarchical categorizations as an important part of its fascist ideology (Nazism) in order to justify enslavement, extermination, ethnic persecution and others atrocities against ethnicities which it deemed genetically or culturally inferior.
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Sep 6, 2024 · In the 18th Century, white Europeans developed new unscientific definitions of ‘race’, such as in this 1851 map of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach’s five races. Wikimedia Commons.
