Bhagat Singh Thind (1923) decided that Asian Indians were ineligible for citizenship because, though deemed "Caucasian" anthropologically, they were not white like European …

Applied to the "white" race 1795 (in Latin) by German anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840), who in his pioneering treatise on anthropology distinguished …

The “Caucasian race” category was a product of the European Enlightenment and late-eighteenth-century natural history. It was introduced about one hundred years after François …

In his work, Blumenbach categorized humanity into five racial types, naming the European variety "Caucasian" based on his belief that their ancestors originated in the Caucasus Mountains, …

May 16, 2022 · Trace the origins of the term ‘Caucasian’—first tied to the mountains of the Caucasus, then used in 18th-century racial classification—and explore how its meaning has …

Sep 28, 2023 · " [Caucasian] is actually a 19th-century anthropological idea that was based around a false conception that the origin of the human species was in the Caucasus Mountains."

Nov 17, 2025 · The original meaning of “Caucasian” stems from Johann Friedrich Blumenbach’s 18th-century racial classification, where he designated the inhabitants of the Caucasus region …

In the eighteenth century, the prevalent view among European scholars was that the human species had its origin in the region of the Caucasus Mountains.

Mar 1, 2009 · It glosses Caucasian as "relating to a broad division of humankind covering peoples from Europe, the Middle East, and parts of Central Asia, and South Asia " or " white-skinned; …

In charting the course of the 'Caucasian race' from a despised, barely European peoples to a scientific classification for white identity, Bruce Baum illuminates the socially constructed …