{"id":59119,"date":"2019-10-26T03:06:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T03:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59119"},"modified":"2019-10-26T03:06:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T03:06:17","slug":"opinion-the-pernicious-myth-of-a-caucasian-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59119","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: The pernicious myth of a Caucasian race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Opinion: The pernicious myth of a Caucasian race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Times<\/a>
\n2019-09-11<\/p>\n

Joel Dinerstien<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of English
\nTulane University, New Orleans Louisiana<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Anthropologists<\/a>
\nAnthropologists have for centuries studied human skulls and drawn conclusions about human origins \u2014 some of them inaccurate. (Menahem Kahana \/ AFP\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

How did a female skull lead to \u201cCaucasians\u201d?<\/em><\/p>\n

In the vocabulary of ethnicity, some designations are obvious. African Americans are of African descent; Latinos have Latin American roots. But what about Caucasians? If a Native American told a Caucasian to \u201cgo back where you came from,\u201d where would that person go?<\/p>\n

Geographically, Caucasia<\/a> is a region of Russia<\/a>, a place from which few white Americans come. Yet the term Caucasian remains in wide use as a synonym for a white person.<\/p>\n

The classification dates back to 1795, when Johann Friedrich Blumenbach<\/a>, a respected German physician and anthropologist, conducted research in which he measured skulls<\/a>, a then-common practice for comparing disparate human groups…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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