Arabic, Chinese, Aztec, cotton clothes are East Asians, Americans and North Affricans

“Arabic, Chinese, Aztec, cotton clothed are East Asians, North Americans and Affricans”. 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.