Racial Categories As Historical Artifact

This is a page out of an old school book, Maury's New Complete Geography (1906). The plate is labeled "Race Types." See the key at the bottom to which images are "caucasion," "mongolian," "malay," and "ethiopian." (You should be able to click on the image to see it larger.)



Found here thanks to lawgeek.

Posted by Lisa Wednesday, January 30, 2008 at 1:27 PM Labels: ,  

5 comments:

  Anonymous

January 30, 2008 at 4:00 PM

Wow! how incredibly creepy-- especially the way the "race types" are arranged in a hierarchy.

  Anonymous

January 30, 2008 at 6:00 PM

There is a more elaborate version of this at a local pub, and it has always fascinated me

  Anonymous

February 2, 2008 at 3:14 AM

Notice how the good respectable white old anglo saxan is at the top in the middle? I have a feeling I know which "race type" made the picture...

  Anonymous

February 11, 2008 at 4:28 PM

Did anyone else notice that the Naitve Americans didn't get a "race type"?
Or that the last perosn is an "American Negro"

  Anonymous

March 29, 2008 at 1:05 PM

Interesting to me that they recognized more than one "type" of African and Native American.

Also, of course, the default person of any racial group is male.

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