negroid

An outdated anthropological term describing physical characteristics once associated with a racial group primarily from sub-Saharan Africa. Its use is now widely considered offensive and scientifically invalid.

• 🇪🇸Relativo o característico de las personas tradicionalmente clasificadas como raza negroide (término anticuado y ofensivo).

1. Characteristic of people traditionally classified as the Negro race C2 formal scientific

   Relating to a now-discredited racial typology that grouped together various indigenous populations, principally from sub-Saharan Africa, on the basis of shared observable physical features such as dark skin, tightly coiled hair, a broad nasal bridge, and certain skull measurements. This classification emerged from 18th- and 19th-century scientific racism and has been thoroughly rejected by modern genetics and anthropology, which recognize that human biological variation does not map onto discrete racial categories. Contemporary usage is largely confined to historical context and is often viewed as pejorative.

   • Early physical anthropologists employed the term 'negroid' alongside 'caucasoid' and 'mongoloid' in their now-obsolete racial taxonomies.
   • The museum's outdated exhibit on human races included a 'negroid' cranium as a supposed type specimen.
   • Modern textbooks explicitly reject the negroid classification as a biological myth rooted in colonial ideology.
   • His 1920s travelogue is laden with offensive, stereotypical descriptions of what he called 'negroid features'.
   • The term survives only in historical analyses of how racial pseudoscience shaped discriminatory policies.

   🇪🇸negroide

   Sinónimos: blackcolorednegro

An outdated and offensive racial classification formerly used to describe a person with dark skin from Africa or of African descent; now considered pseudoscientific and highly derogatory.

• 🇪🇸Término antropológico anticuado y ofensivo que designaba a una persona de piel oscura de origen africano, usado en clasificaciones raciales obsoletas. También se refería al tipo racial así denominado en esas clasificaciones.

1. A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa), according to an obsolete racial classification. C2 formal

   An archaic and now discredited racial category that grouped people of sub-Saharan African ancestry based on physical traits such as dark skin, tightly curled hair, and certain facial features. This concept, rooted in 19th-century pseudoscience, has been rejected by modern genetics and anthropology; the term is now avoided as it perpetuates racial stereotypes and is widely considered offensive.

   • Early 20th-century textbooks erroneously divided humanity into Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid races.
   • The term 'negroid' is no longer acceptable in any scientific or social discourse.
   • Anthropologists today emphasize that there is no biological basis for the negroid racial grouping.
   • Using the word 'negroid' to describe a person is now regarded as highly offensive and ignorant.
   • Historical documents often classified enslaved Africans under the outdated negroid label.

   🇪🇸persona negroide

   Sinónimos: africanblacknegro

• negroids plural form
• negroids' possessive plural form
• negroid's possessive singular form