Word: negroid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does not particularly concern the great majority of nonexperts. Man's eyes tell him that the species comes in three predominant skin shades, which are chromatically though imperfectly described as white, yellow and black. From much the same evidence, three major divisions are frequently deduced: Caucasian, Mongolian and Negroid...
...dark skin that usually, though not invariably, characterizes members of the Negroid race may also be a protective device. If man was first born in tropical Africa, as some anthropologists now suggest, then it is possible that his skin, whatever color it may have been to begin with, took on added pigment-again, starting with chance mutation-as a screen against harmful radiation from the sun. It is a fact that Negroes seldom have skin cancer, though its incidence is rising noticeably in the white population of the U.S. The same pigment, by filtering solar radiation, impedes synthesis of vitamin...
Cincinnati police were convinced that one man had committed all four murders. But all they knew was that he is probably a Negro (negroid hair was found on one victim), that he has O-type blood (determined through tests on the rapist's semen), and that he may drive a bronze and cream 1959 Chevrolet (which was spotted near the areas where Mrs. Hochhausler and Mrs. Messer were killed). Understandably, jittery Cincinnati was beginning to wonder if it is in for a reign of terror like the killing spree that had Boston women besieged for two years...
...Negro an inferior have led to some Negroes' having a complex and debilitating prejudice against themselves. The preoccupation of many Negroes with hair straighteners, skin bleaches and the like often illustrates this aspect of self-prejudice, just as a wholehearted attempt by other Negroes to emphasize their Negroid features and hair texture shows their pride in their "negritude" a word currently in fashion in Negro communities. "Many
Oklahoma courts have decided that American Indians are "white" and therefore may not marry "any person of African descent." In Alabama, however, Indians are mulattoes, according to the courts, and therefore cannot marry whites. Filipinos in Louisiana must be able to prove that they are "not basically negroid" before they can marry whites. Indiana courts have revealed that "all Mexicans are not white persons and some of them are negroes," and therefore non-Negro Mexicans can marry either Negroes or whites...