Negroid

Negroid or Negroids (Latin niger " black ") is a not common racial systematic name for a number of dark-skinned African populations that inhabit the majority of the African continent ( Sub-Saharan Africa), with the exception of North Africa, as well as people with those ancestors (z. example, African American, Afro German, see also Black ). The classification of " Negroid " or " negroid " is ethnographically useless because it summarizes a variety of completely different people after somatic criteria.

As negrid be considered under this classification of the racial theories of physical characteristics such as a beaded nose, frizzy hair and a dark pigmented skin. The facial skeleton of the "typical Negroids " has round eyes and nasal cavities on pronounced jaw and often an elongated skull.

Negroid race were obsolete by customer next to Caucasians and Mongoloids to the three fundamentally different large breeds.

The purpose of dividing people according to phenomenological features is in discussion (see Eurocentrism ). The term negrid itself is controversial because of their connection to racism. The term was derived from negro or negro what his associations with slavery, colonialism and territorial claims of European conquerors and is therefore considered derogatory and survived. In the form of a africoid partly negative connotations free alternative is used in the Anglo-Saxon research. Another alternative for negrid one looks occasionally with congoid. Nevertheless negrid / negroid, at least where the concept of race is still used, a common name.