Lecture 5: Race 23 March 'Race' the origin of the word is obscure

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‘Race’ to sum up: the early use of the word ‘race’ was parallel to nation or people but in late 18th and early 19th century the word acquired new meanings: one of great divisions of mankind, based on physical peculiarities (from 1774) racial ideas about the ‘inferiority’ and ‘superiority’ of certain racial groups, etc. group of common descent; biological type; type determining social and cultural characteristics a group defined as distinct because of its supposed common physical characteristics (late 18 th, early 19 th century)
Jordan ‘First Impressions’; Frantz Fanon ‘The Fact of Blackness’; Lola Young ‘Imperial Culture’; Anne McClintock ‘The White Family of Man’.