WITHIN the span of the nineteenth century a number of ancient and long established phenomena disappeared from the scene of Western civilization such as cavalry officers, the Holy Roman Empire and the ...

In the eighteenth century a disastrous shift occurred in the way Westerners perceived races. The man responsible was Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, one of the least racist thinkers of his day.

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 ...

The scientific name for the common chimpanzee is Pan troglodytes, a label created in 1775 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. He chose the word troglodyte with deliberation; it comes ...

Greeks and Scythians -- Romans, Celts, Gauls, and Germani -- White slavery -- White slavery as beauty ideal -- The White beauty ideal as science -- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach names White people ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/critphilrace.7.2.0352 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/critphilrace.7.2.0352 Copy URL Abstract This article shows that Johann Gottlieb ...

Your 15 March issue honouring Carl Linnaeus brings to mind what is probably his most significant contribution to modern life: the idea that groups of people can be regarded as naturally distinct ...