Meaning of ur-race | Babel Free

Definitions

A primitive, primordial, or original race; a proto-race

Examples

“The Jew, then, was at once seen as the definitive race and an equivocal one – at once the embodiment of an Ur-race and the composite body of a mongrel race.”

“Günther adduced from this fact that the characteristics of the ur-race could be determined from close observation of contemporary Armenians.”

““Aryanism” broadened but also still racialized ideas about the origins of civilization by incorporating all speakers of Indo-European languages, including Indian speaker of Sanskrit-based tongues, into a single, civilizing ur-race, as in Sir Henry Maine's Taming Cannibals.”

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