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  2. Race (human categorization) - Wikipedia

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    Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society. [1] The term came into common usage during the 16th century, when it was used to refer to groups of various kinds, including those characterized by close kinship relations. [2]

  3. Historical race concepts - Wikipedia

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    The word "race", interpreted to mean an identifiable group of people who share a common descent, was introduced into English in the 16th century from the Old French rasse (1512), from Italian razza: the Oxford English Dictionary cites the earliest example around the mid-16th century and defines its early meaning as a "group of people belonging to the same family and descended from a common ...

  4. Color terminology for race - Wikipedia

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    Identifying human races in terms of skin colour, at least as one among several physiological characteristics, has been common since antiquity.Such divisions appeared in early modern scholarship, usually dividing humankind into four or five categories, with colour-based labels: red, yellow, black, white, and sometimes brown.

  5. Definitions of whiteness in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The definition actually does vary and is also published as "a light skinned race", which avoids inclusion of any sort of nationality or ethnicity. [ 8 ] The 1990 US census ' Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) listed " Caucasian " or " Aryan " among other terms as subgroups of "white" in their ancestry code listing, [ 9 ] but 2005 and proceeding ...

  6. Race and society - Wikipedia

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    knowing someone's "race" does not provide comprehensive predictive information about biological characteristics, and only absolutely predicts those traits that have been selected to define the racial categories, e.g. knowing a person's skin color, which is generally acknowledged to be one of the markers of race (or taken as a defining ...

  7. Race and ethnicity in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States has a racially and ethnically diverse population. [1] At the federal level, race and ethnicity have been categorized separately. The most recent United States census recognized five racial categories (White, Black, Native American/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander), as well as people who belong to two or more of the racial categories.

  8. Typology (anthropology) - Wikipedia

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    Typology in anthropology was the categorization of the human species by races, based solely on traits that are readily observable from a distance such as head shape, skin color, hair form, body build, and stature.

  9. Race (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Physiological race A group of individuals that do not necessarily differ in morphology from other members of the species, but have identifiably different physiology or behaviour. [14] A physiological race may be an ecotype, part of a species that is adapted to a different local habitat, defined even by a specific food source. [15]