The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, [a] Europid, or Europoid) [2] is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.

The difference between white and caucasian is quite simple. Both are used to denote a race. The correct word is white, while caucasian is generally avoided because of its vagueness. White is the color of the skin, which also denotes a race while caucasian has a much more complicated definition that makes it quite antiquated.

the words 'white person' were meant to indicate only a person of what is popularly known as the Caucasian race. In 1923, the Supreme Court ruled on a similar case where Bhagat Singh Thind, a Sikh Indian man was seeking naturalization.

2023年9月28日 · Most of us equate the noun "Caucasian" with "white person," but it's much more specific than that. It touches on issues much deeper than skin color, and it kindles questions of race and the very origin of humans. It even exposes …

The group of these persons was called "Caucasoid race" or Caucasian race. [1] In former times, many people divided human beings into three races. These races were called Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid. Today, scientists agree that there is only one human race. Modern genetic research has shown that the idea of three races was wrong. [2] [3]: 360

2017年2月1日 · Eugenicists divided Caucasians into four ranked subraces: Nordic, Alpine, Mediterranean, and Jew (Semitic). I’m sure you will not be surprised to learn that the Nordics were ranked highest intellectually and morally.

2018年9月27日 · Building upon other’s classification schemes, including Carl Linnaeus and Christoph Meiners, Blumenbach developed a five-fold categorization system for humans: Caucasian, Ethiopians, Mongolians, Americans, and Malays.

There was no notion of a Caucasian race in the years between 1000 to 1684. In fact, the “race” concept itself was introduced by Europeans elites only near the end of this period, in the seventeenth century, after the rise of the Atlantic slave trade and massive enslavement of …

2006年2月27日 · In charting the course of the 'Caucasian race' from a despised, barely European peoples to a scientific classification for white identity, Bruce Baum illuminates the socially constructed nature of race and the role of science in shaping it.

The term 'Caucasian' refers to a racial classification that is historically used to describe people of European descent, as well as some populations from parts of North Africa and the Middle East.