Negroid

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Negroid has many different meanings.

• For the use of "Negroid" as a term in physical anthropology, see the article: Caucasoid, Negroid, Mongoloid, Australoid, Capoid.
• For the use of Negroid as a term in classifying different major phenotypes in humans see cline.
• For a short history of the doubly-uniqueIt is doubly unique because: (1) It is the only U.S. ethnic group in which membership is often involuntary. (2) It has a lower exogamy rate by far than any other U.S. demographic category. U.S. ethnicity known as "Black" or "African American," see the article African-American History.
• For an overview of the genetic history of human populations with a specific focus on the utility (or not) of various "racial" classification schemes, see the article: human population history.
• For a more focused genetic prehistory of the Bantu expansions in sub-Saharan Africa, see Bantu.
• For an explanation of the meaning of "Negroid" as a skull type in craniometry, see the article: Craniofacial Anthropometry.
• For an explanation of how forensic anthropologists determine if a skull is of the "Negroid" type, see: Usage in Forensics.
• For a specific example of how to determine the "racial" type of a skull, see: Example of "Racial" Determination.
• For an explanation of Human genetic variation, see that article.
• For an overview of the different social interpretations of race, see that article.
• For a large overall survey of the utility (or not) of the "race" notion in current thought, see the article: Race.
• For an overview of the international "Black community," which includes the global African Diaspora as well as other non-White peoples around the world who express solidarity in reaction to Western colonialism and exploitation, see the article: Black (people).

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