Arabid race

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title: "Arabid race" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["historical-definitions-of-race", "19th-century-introductions"] description: "Outdated grouping of human beings" topic_path: "general/historical-definitions-of-race" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabid_race" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Outdated grouping of human beings ::

The Arabid race was a term used by ethnologists during the late 19th century and the early 20th century in an attempt to categorize a perceived racial division between speakers of Semitic languages and other people. Its proponents saw it as part of the so-called Caucasian race or even of a subspecies labelled Homo sapiens europaeus. It has been considered significantly outdated in the years since. Modern scientific consensus based on genetics rejects the concept of distinct human races in a biological sense.

In the early 20th century, Charles Gabriel Seligman described his perception of the occurrence of the "Arabid race" in the Sudan region:

References

References

1. (10 June 2010). "21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook". SAGE Publications.
2. John R. Baker. (1974). "Race". [[Oxford University Press]].
3. American Association of Physical Anthropologists. (27 March 2019). "AAPA Statement on Race and Racism".
4. Seligmann, C. G.. (July 1913). "Some Aspects of the Hamitic Problem in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.". The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.

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