The Alpine race is a historical concept used in scientific racism as one of the three sub-races of the Caucasian race. The term is obsolete today, but was popular in the early 20th century.
Read more about Alpine Race: History, Physical Appearance, Geography and Origin, European Racial Types (Ripley)
Famous quotes containing the words alpine and/or race:
“The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, ‘mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
“The parallel between antifeminism and race prejudice is striking. The same underlying motives appear to be at work, namely fear, jealousy, feelings of insecurity, fear of economic competition, guilt feelings, and the like. Many of the leaders of the feminist movement in the nineteenth-century United States clearly understood the similarity of the motives at work in antifeminism and race discrimination and associated themselves with the anti slavery movement.”
—Ashley Montagu (b. 1905)