Negroid

Map of human races (Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885–1890)

Caucasoid:     Aryans     Semitic     Hamitic Negroid:     African Negro     Khoikhoi     Melanesian     Negrito     Australoid Uncertain:     Dravida & Sinhalese

Mongoloid:     North Mongol     Chinese & Indochinese     Korean & Japanese     Tibetan & Burmese     Malay     Polynesian     Maori     Micronesian     Eskimo & Inuit     American

Negroid was a word for a person from Sub-Saharan Africa. The group of these persons was called "Negroid race". In times long passed, many people divided human beings into three races. These races were called Negroid, Mongoloid, and Caucasoid. Today, scientists agree that there is only one human race. Modern genetic research has shown that the idea of three races was wrong.

Features such as a wider nose, curly hair, and dark skin were seen as typical for the Negroid race.

Negroid Media

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  Illustration of Negroid, Caucasoid, and Mongoloid skulls shown from above (Samuel George Morton, 1839)

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  Illustrations of "racial types" from The New Student's Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach and Frank Morton McMurry