| The American Heritage® Book of English Usage. |
A Practical and Authoritative Guide to Contemporary English. 1996.
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6. Names and Labels: Social, Racial, and Ethnic Terms
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| § 51. Negroid |
| Negroid, one of the terms proposed by European anthropologists in the 18th and 19th centuries as part of a system of human racial classification, refers to the indigenous peoples of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. It is sometimes applied to certain peoples native to Indonesia, New Guinea, Melanesia, and the Philippines as well. In all cases it is now considered both out of date and likely to cause offense. | 1 |
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