Word: negroid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into history, even if "dubious," was certainly pointed at the myth of a Jewish "race." Readers up to examining the matter might look at C. S. Coon's The Races of Europe. Essentially, since peoples practicing Judaism appear in each of the three great stocks of mankind, Caucasoid, Negroid and Mongoloid, there is no Jewish race in the proper biological sense of the word...
Negroes who pass are seldom detected; there are no telltale Negroid features that a generous mixture of Caucasian genes will not erase. Anthropologists and geneticists pooh-pooh the bugaboo of an atavistic black baby. If one of the parents is pure white, the baby cannot be darker than the darker parent; if both have Negro blood, the baby may be slightly darker than its parents but the chances are against...
...chocolaty skin, soft negroid eyes, feminine hands. But he could raise four army muskets by inserting his fingers into the muzzles. In one Austrian battle he defended a bridge so fiercely that thereafter he was called "Horatius Codes of the Tyrol." Said admiring General Thiebault: "He is the only colored man whom I have forgiven his skin...
...music can be either good or bad," he went on, "we try to play what we feel, and that of course makes it negroid." Ellington said that he was trying to establish an "unadulterated negro music...
...name "Jim Crow," meaning anything Negroid, was spawned by that awkwardly worded but catchy little song hit a hundred-odd years ago; today he stands for the segregation of white and colored races. To the Southern Negro, Jim Crow has meant, among other things, outmoded railway coaches, the rear rows of seats on trolleys and busses...