An edition of The retreat of scientific racism
(1992)
The Retreat of Scientific Racism
Changing Concepts of Race in Britain and the United States between the World Wars
by Elazar Barkan
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"The modern meaning of race originated in eighteenth-century zoology, and was later applied to humans by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, who formulated a terminology of physical anthropology and classified humankind into the now all-too-familiar color categories: black, brown, yellow, red and white."
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