Brown or Malay Breed. Dark color, curly hair, high forehead, short nose and sometimes crushed,...

“Brown or Malay Breed. Dark color, curly hair, high forehead, short and sometimes crushed nose, very large mouth, upper jaw somewhat protruding, beautiful shapes, half-sized and complex stature”. 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.