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Martin Luther King Jr. Day Events Examine Progress, Remaining Work To Be Done (Colby College) ...

Edit Public Technologies 19 Jan 2016
(Source. Colby College). A Martin Luther King Jr. Day community luncheon in Foss dining hall Monday, including remarks by President David A ... The keynote MLK Day event in the afternoon of Jan ... Painter discussed the history of constructs of a white race or races, from when the Irish were considered white but inferior through the concept of a superior Nordic race to a 20th-century categorization of races as Caucasoid, Negroid, and Mongoloid....

Research Impact (Southern Methodist University)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Jan 2016
(Source. Southern Methodist University). SMU scientists and their research have a global reach that is frequently noted, beyond peer publications and media mentions ... Hot topic merits open access ... (Credit ... Because of his cranial shape and size he was declared not Native American but instead 'Caucasoid,' implying a very different population had once been in the Americas, one that was unrelated to contemporary Native Americans ... Sen ... (noodl....

‘Kennewick Man’ Was Native American, Study Suggests

Edit IFL Science 19 Jun 2015
When a nearly complete 9,000-year old human skeleton washed out of a Columbia River cutbank at Kennewick in Washington State in 1996, archaeologists hailed it as the most important find of the century ... A new study that will further fuel the debate shows that he was, most likely, Native American ... Rewriting History ... The initial bio-archaeological analysis concluded that the individual was a Caucasoid male, about 45 years old at death ... ....

Books

Edit The Dallas Morning News 06 Jun 2015
Not to get all Grisham-McConaughey on you, but close your eyes and picture a guy named Warren Duffy, Warren (Germanic) Duffy (Gaelic), a failed illustrator who owns a comic book store in Wales ... Mat Johnson’s choice of name for the protagonist of his new novel is no accident ... Warren’s “Caucasoidal” appearance causes most to assume he’s white, but his bearing (especially when “letting my black voice come out”) elicits second-guessing....

Race and biology, part 2

Edit The Examiner 25 Apr 2015
The Linnaean method of classifying races in anthropology was overthrown after Carleton S. Coon's "The Origin of Races." His method was similar to that of Buffon. He categorized humans into five races.. 1) Caucasoid. 2) Mongoloid. 3) Australoid. 4) Negroid. 5) Capoid. Blumenbach had hinted at the continuous (as opposed to discrete) nature of differences among populations, but Coon's discrete taxonomy won the day ... As for Carleton Coon's work ... ....

Christopher Columbus: Setting the Record Straight

Edit About.com 24 Apr 2015
Few stories in American history are as monolithic as the story of Columbus's "discovery" of America, and American children grow up believing a tale that is largely a fanciful fabrication characterized by uncertainty if not deliberate untruths ... The existence of massive Negroid and Caucasoid stone statues constructed by the Olmec civilization strongly suggests contact with Afro-Phoenician peoples between 1000 BC and 300 A.D....

Human races - a race against what is understood legally especially about homo sapiens

Edit Canberra Times 31 Jan 2015
It is said that there are three or four human races. Photo. mags.king@fairfaxmedia.com.au. Question. Is there such a thing as race? Date. 24/1/2015. Response by. Rod Taylor, Fuzzy Logic  ... Biological races like Negroid and Caucasoid simply do not exist." Henneberg says that divisions such as these can be "both biased and harmful", and are often used to assert the superiority of one group over another ... ....

Global Cystic Fibrosis Market 2015-2019: Key Vendors are Actavis, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Gilead Sciences, Novartis and Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Edit PR Newswire 30 Jan 2015
600769 Facebook Twitter Pinterest. ×. 600769. DUBLIN, Jan. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --Research and Markets ... Cystic fibrosis also known as mucoviscidosis is a genetically-inherited disease ... The incidence of cystic fibrosis varies among populations, and is substantially less common in Asian and African populations as compared to the people of Caucasoid origin of Europe and North America, with a marked difference within each country ... 01 ... 02....

>First DNA tests say Kennewick Man was Native American

Edit Seattle Post 18 Jan 2015
SEATTLE (AP) — Nearly two decades after the ancient skeleton called Kennewick Man was discovered on the banks of the Columbia River, the mystery of his origins appears to be nearing resolution ... Army Corps of Engineers, which is responsible for the care and management of the bones ... Bothell archaeologist James Chatters, the first scientist to examine the skeleton, said the skull looked "Caucasoid," not Native American ... ___....

Campbell's mockery of Irish 'bordered on racism'

Edit Belfast Telegraph 13 Nov 2014
Racism? No. Plain old ignorance? Definitely. Though why anyone is shocked I don't know. It's a typical comment from the anti everything that isn't Protestant white heterosexual and male party (or, as they are better known, the DUP). Oh, and I'm a unionist - just not a unionist voter. David Arnott. Very sensitive is Martin McGuinness in his old age ... Move along ... Both nations are of caucasoid origin, therefore race has nothing to do with it ... ....

A forensic examination (UTS - University of Technology, Sydney)

Edit noodls 16 Sep 2014
(Source. UTS - University of Technology, Sydney). It was a perfect March morning the day Meiya Sutisno and her team of researchers began examining the body ... The feet were pulled close together, the shoulders appeared hunched and the head tilted slightly down ... His features are predominantly Caucasoid, with some Mongoloid and Negroid features, a common mixture for many people who lived in the Nile Delta in ancient times ... distributed by....

Michael Jackson: Black Superhero

Edit Rollingstone 26 Jun 2014
When Michael Jackson was a boy, you didn't have to say "black is beautiful," you just had to look at him and you knew ... "People responded viscerally to Michael Jackson's beauty," says Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. 1969 was a year after the assassination of Dr ... By the Nineties, Jackson no longer looked like a black person – after a series of surgeries, his facial features and skin color had become more and more Caucasoid ... ....

Racism, our dirty secret

Edit The Times of India 09 Feb 2014
Article 14 of the Constitution deals with 'Right to Equality' ... Much has been made of how 'mainland Indians' look upon Indians from the northeastern region bearing Mongoloid features ... one, recognising the distinction between, say, people bearing Mongoloid features and those bearing Caucasoid features, an ability that is as helpful as that of being able to differentiate between a mosque and a temple, or an Audi and a Skoda ... ....
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