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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] Actually I can't see using terms as negroid and caucasoid as being a mistake. They were the terms commonly accepted at the time and pretty much everyone knew what was meant, which is dark skinned peoples versus light skinned peoples. Back in those days the even Eurocentric anthropologists admitted that blacks (negroids, etc) were the aboriginal populations from Africa to large parts of Asia. The main distinction being that they promoted a concept that these aborigines were an inferior "subspecies" of human that produced nothing of note on their own. Therefore, in their view, these people were eventually wiped out from the spread of superior white (caucasoid/mongoloid) populations who were more advanced than the primitive blacks. Many of the writings of Diop and others at this time were intended to counter the idea that blacks, no matter what LABEL is used, were indeed among the first to develop civilization and the arts and that whites, again no matter what LABEL is used, were not the first to invent advanced culture and civilization. No matter if the terminology and anthropological perspectives have changed, the underlying point is still the same: dark skinned people spread from Africa thousands of years ago and many of the first "advanced" civilizations around the world were built by the descendants of these dark skinned people, who themselves were dark as well. So, in the sense that Diop and others were attempting to CORRECT the distortion and misinformation being produced by Eurocentric scholars, he did not make any mistakes. But that does not mean his work should not be updated with more recent research and terminology. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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