Brown (racial classification)

Brown is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a light to moderate brown complexion.

"Brown skin" redirects here. For the single, see Brown Skin.

In the late 18th century, German anthropologist extended Linnaeus's four-color race model by adding the brown race, "Malay race", which included both the Malay division of Austronesian (Southern-Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Pattani, Sumatra, Madagascar, Formosans, etc.) and Polynesians and Melanesians of Pacific Islands, as well as Papuans and Aborigines of Australia.^[1]^[2]

Johann Blumenbach

In 1775, "John Hunter of Edinburg included under the label light brown, Southern Europeans, , the Spanish, Persians, Turks and Laplanders, under the label brown."^[3]

Italians

's five-race scheme differed from Blumenbach's by including Ethiopians in the brown race, as well as Oceanic peoples. Louis Figuier adopted and adapted d'Omalius d'Halloy's classification and also included Egyptians in the brown race.^[4]

Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy

In 1915, Donald Mackenzie conceived a "Mediterranean or Brown race, the eastern branch of which reaches to India and the western to the ... [and includes] predynastic Egyptians... [and some populations of] Neolithic man".^[5]

British Isles

Bronze (racial classification)

Racism

Discrimination based on skin color

Melting pot

Alexander Winchell (1890). "XX. Genealogy of the Brown Races". . S. C. Griggs and company. xvii et seq.