Day: October 12, 2018

jenniferrpovey:

fledgling-witch:

mapsontheweb:

Climatic Chart of the World, Showing the Distribution of the Human Race and the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms.

Yaggy’s Geographical Portfolio, 1893.

Note that ‘Arab’ and ‘Hindu’ (Indian) are considered sunsets of White Caucasians in this map. This isn’t an oddity of this map – ‘Arabs and Indians are white’ was the common classification at the height of scientific racism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is a superb example of how racism is arbitrary, as European white supremacists nowadays consider Arabs to be the primary threat to whiteness.

Now look across the Atlantic. Although Latin Americans, North American white supremacists’ current primary fixation, are not referred to directly, you can see by the blue coloration of Mexico, Central Amee, and coastal South America that they’re also considered white Caucasians.

Race is arbitrary and changes with time.

Who gets to be in the white club varies and basically unless you’re northern or western European your white club card can be rescinded at any time.

I do wonder how much of the classification covering at least some areas reflects longer-established colonization by Europeans/wishful thinking about population replacement, though.

Prompted specifically by both coasts of British North America being “Caucasian”, when the actual natives definitely did not have that white club card any more than in the pink-shaded areas. I would guess that the situation with Mexico, the Caribbean, and the coastal rim around South America might be similar.

Which wouldn’t necessarily account for the stripe down through the Arabian Peninsula and into India, but it’s the best explanation I can think of for the Americas.