Yellow or Mongolian breed. Color of sooty brown or olive brown; hair black, rare, inspient,...

“Yellow or Mongolian race. Color of sooty brown or olive brown; hair black, rare, inspient, face crushed, wide in the gothic knobs, narrow in the chin, eyes divergent, nose little protruding, large and very detached ears, quadrangular head, jaws jaws”. Image caption Original styled according to the nineteenth-century concept of “race”, which although it remains in common parlance is believed scientifically surpassed in the later century following, and best defined by the term deemed also more politically correct than “ethnicity” or “phenotype”, depending on the context. Detail from Table V, “Prospectus of all races of the globe and their fogge di vestire”, from “La Geografia a occhio”, Lithografia Corbetta, Milan, 1853.