Word: negroid
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...group led by Brazilian researcher Ventura Santos produced evidence that a skull found in central Brazil not only has Negroid features similar to Australian aborigines, but predates - by almost 2,000 years - the oldest previously known human remains found in the Americas. This suggests that a race originating in Southeast Asia, not the North Asia of the Mongoloids, inhabited the Americas first. The researchers believe that an advanced group of skilled seafarers originally traveled from Asia to Australia, and, after several millennia, an offshoot of this population set sail again, this time for South American shores...
...find fault with this hypothesis - the skull is a lone example and does not contain the correct matter for carbon-dating - anthropologists around the world agree that decisive evidence of the skull's geographic ancestry will be produced by testing its DNA and comparing it to that of other Negroid peoples, such as Australian aborigines and Africans. The remains of the woman who's spawning the debate, nicknamed Luzia, were found in 1975 outside Belo Horizonte, Brazil's third largest city, and were in storage in a Rio museum for a quarter of a century. That sound you hear...
...argument for Socrates' African origins, for example, is based largely on posthumous portraits that show him having a snub nose and broad mouth. But this is hardly conclusive, Lefkowitz contends, since the Greeks also portrayed the Scythians of Russia as having these supposedly Negroid features. Moreover, if Socrates had been part African, that fact would surely have been satirized by his critics, like the comic playwright Aristophanes...
Writing in 1901, the distinguished black critic and poet William Stanley Braithwaite argued, "We are at the commencement of a 'negroid' renaissance," one that "will have as much importance in literary history as the much- spoken-of and much-praised Celtic and Canadian renaissance." Others came to share his optimism. Just three years later, a critic declared the birth of the "New Negro Literary Movement." At the time, after all, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the novelists Pauline Hopkins and Charles Chesnutt, and the essayists W.E.B. DuBois and Anna Julia Cooper were at the height of their creative powers...
...into a hallucinatory, gory and frequently pornographic world of outrageously sterotyped Black characters. James' jokes hurtle by at a furious pace: Bubbles travels to the Isle of the Unrestrained Negroes, negotiates the Cave of the Flaming Tar Babies and survives attacks from the Flapjack Ninja-kilers from Hell, some Negroid Vomitoids and a lascivious crew of Muppet B-Boys...