Negroid race

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Related to Negroid race: Mongoloid race, Australoid race
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Noun1.Negroid race - a dark-skinned raceNegroid race - a dark-skinned race      
Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid, Black - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
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Like many other scholars before and after him, Gobineau denied that any Negroid race had ever produced a great civilization".
Therefore a black person, to Rodney, is not necessarily a person of a negroid race, dark pigmentation or even African descent, but a person who belongs to one of the oppressed groups by the racist paradigm anywhere in the world.
Later attempts were made by the apartheid regime to change this classification to Bantu, denoting a negroid race that had migrated to Southern Africa, and thus the fictitious European claim that Southern Africa was res nullius, in effect uninhabited and thus belonged to no one.