HUMAN RACES 'Overview of all the races of the globe and their styles of dress', detail of the planisphere divided into the five great areas theorized by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his 'De generis humani varietate native liber' of 1775: in blue the area populated by the race Caucasian, in yellow the one populated by the Mongolian race, in green from Malay, in gray from Negra, brown from the Americana. Caption 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. Plate V, from 'La Geografia at a glance', Lithograph Corbetta, Milan,1853.

HUMAN RACES 'Overview of all the races of the globe and their styles of dress', detail of the planisphere divided into the five great areas theorized by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his 'De generis humani varietate native liber' of 1775: in blue the area populated by the race Caucasian, in yellow the one populated by the Mongolian race, in green from Malay, in gray from Negra, brown from the Americana. Caption 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. Plate V, from 'La Geografia at a glance', Lithograph Corbetta, Milan,1853.

HUMAN RACES 'Overview of all the races of the globe and their styles of dress', detail of the planisphere divided into the five great areas theorized by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his 'De generis humani varietate native liber' of 1775: in blue the area populated by the race Caucasian, in yellow the one populated by the Mongolian race, in green from Malay, in gray from Negra, brown from the Americana. Caption 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 . Plate V, from 'La Geografia at a glance', Lithograph Corbetta, Milan, 1853.

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