Mediterranean race facts for kids

An Italian man of Mediterranean type, from the Fischer Lexikon (1959)

The Mediterranean race (also Mediterranid race) is one of the multiple sub-races into which the Caucasian race was categorised by most anthropologists in the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.

• Giuseppe Sergi. The Mediterranean Race: a Study of the Origins of European Peoples. London: Walter Scott.

• The Mediterranean Race by Giuseppe Sergi

Images for kids

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  Irishman of Mediterranean type, from Augustus Henry Keane's Man, Past and Present (1899).

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  Distribution of European racial types, from Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race (1916). Mediterranean race is shown in yellow; green indicates the Alpine race; bright red is the Nordic race.

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  Man from France, used as an example of the Mediterranean race by William Z. Ripley in 1897

See also

In Spanish: Raza mediterránea para niños