Giuseppe Sergi

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Giuseppe Sergi

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Why Is Giuseppe Sergi Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Giuseppe Sergi was an Italian anthropologist of the early twentieth century, best known for his opposition to Nordicism in his books on the racial identity of Mediterranean peoples. He rejected existing racial typologies that identified Mediterranean peoples as "dark whites" because they implied a Nordicist conception of Mediterranean peoples descending from whites who had become racially mixed with non-whites which he claimed was false. His concept of the Mediterranean race, identified Mediterranean peoples as being an autonomous brunet race and he claimed that the Nordic race was descended from the Mediterranean race whose skin had depigmented to a pale complexion after it moved north. This concept became important to the modelling of racial difference in the early twentieth century.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Giuseppe Sergi?

Giuseppe Sergi is affiliated with the following schools:

• Sapienza University of Rome
• University of Bologna