Arabid race
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{{short description|Outdated grouping of human beings}}
The Arabid race was a term used by ethnologists during the late 19th century and the early 20th century in an attempt to categorize a perceived racial division between speakers of Semitic languages and other people. Its proponents saw it as part of the so-called Caucasian race or even of a subspecies labelled Homo sapiens europaeus.{{cite book |last1=Birx |first1=H. James |title=21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook |date=10 June 2010 |publisher=SAGE Publications |isbn=978-1-4522-6630-5 |page=14 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fsF1AwAAQBAJ&dq=arabid+race&pg=PT40 |access-date=7 April 2022 |language=en |chapter=Biological Anthropology|authorlink=H. James Birx}} It has been considered significantly outdated in the years since.{{cite book| author=John R. Baker | author-link=John Baker (biologist) | title=Race | place=New York and London | publisher=Oxford University Press | year=1974 | pages=625 | isbn=978-0-936396-04-0}} Modern scientific consensus based on genetics rejects the concept of distinct human races in a biological sense.{{cite web|author=American Association of Physical Anthropologists|title=AAPA Statement on Race and Racism |website=American Association of Physical Anthropologists|access-date=19 June 2020 |date=27 March 2019 |url=https://physanth.org/about/position-statements/aapa-statement-race-and-racism-2019/}}
In the early 20th century, Charles Gabriel Seligman described his perception of the occurrence of the "Arabid race" in the Sudan region:
{{"|In the Sudan area, classic Arabid types can be found among the Kababish and certain other Arabic-speaking desert tribes collectively known as Sudanese Arabs. Here, they often occur in solution with the local Hamitic Mediterranean type, which was the morphological taxon to which belonged the A-Group, C-Group and Meroitic culture makers, among certain other early populations in the region. Elsewhere, Arabid elements fuse with the Negroid type of the region's indigenous Nilo-Saharan speakers, the Nilotes, thereby producing an Afro-Arab hybrid type.{{cite journal|jstor=2843546|title=Some Aspects of the Hamitic Problem in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.|first=C. G.|last=Seligmann| date=July 1913| journal=The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland|volume=43|pages=593–705|doi=10.2307/2843546|url=https://zenodo.org/record/1449643}}}}