HUMAN RACES 'White or Caucasian race, white skin, high forehead, oval face, long nose, open face angle, middle mouth, never too big lips, open eyes and a horizontal depressed, soft hair hanging out or curled'. Original caption drawn up according to the nineteenth-century concept of 'race', which although it remains in the common language is considered scientifically overcome in the late following century, and better defined by the term considered even more politically correct than 'ethnicity' or 'phenotype', depending on the context. Detail from table V, 'Overview of all the races of the globe and their style of dressing', from 'La Geografia at a glance', Lithograph Corbetta, Milan,1853.

HUMAN RACES 'White or Caucasian race, white skin, high forehead, oval face, long nose, open face angle, middle mouth, never too big lips, open eyes and a horizontal depressed, soft hair hanging out or curled'. Original caption drawn up according to the nineteenth-century concept of 'race', which although it remains in the common language is considered scientifically overcome in the late following century, and better defined by the term considered even more politically correct than 'ethnicity' or 'phenotype', depending on the context. Detail from table V, 'Overview of all the races of the globe and their style of dressing', from 'La Geografia at a glance', Lithograph Corbetta, Milan,1853.

HUMAN RACES 'White or Caucasian race, white skin, high forehead, oval face, long nose, open face angle, middle mouth, never too big lips, open eyes and a horizontal depressed, soft hair hanging out or curled'. Original caption drawn up according to the nineteenth-century concept of 'race', which although it remains in the common language is considered scientifically overcome in the late following century, and better defined by the term considered even more politically correct than 'ethnicity' or 'phenotype', depending on the context. Detail from table V, 'Overview of all the races of the globe and their style of dressing', from 'La Geografia at a glance', Lithograph Corbetta, Milan, 1853.

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