User:Fæ/Scientific racism cases

A few pointers to avoid confusion about this page:

• If in any doubt about what scientific racism is, please read the Wikipedia article.
• People uploading and accurately describing historic scientific racism material is within project scope, creating new material that promotes false theories of modern scientific racism is not. Words like "Caucasoid", "Negroid" and "Mongoloid" used to describe human races is not supported by modern science as biologically there is only one human race.
• Scientific racism may be used to justify current claims of there being a superior white race, or more intelligent yellow race, this is considered racist.

This page has been created to supplement COM:AN discussion about images which:

1. are derived works where the user created version promotes scientific racism and misrepresents the source(s)
2. have been titled or described on their image pages in ways that promote scientific racism
3. user created original research which promotes scientific racism and may be considered to have negative educational value

For more information and example cases of cross-wiki promotion of scientific racism refer to m:Talk:Black Lives Matter#Images promoting modern scientific racism.

User 1

Example after repairs. Crop redone taking full, more dignified, portrait rather than 'mugshot' style. File renamed to match text, which never used "Mongoloid".

• Ref Commons:Administrators' noticeboard#Renaming a file to make it more obvious to reusers that an image promotes scientific racism - AN thread which tests the consensus for the approach of renaming files to make it obvious on cross-wiki reuse that there's an issue with scientific racism or to fix the wording completely.

Cases

1. Neighbor-joining Tree-2.png (GU) inserted cross-wiki into articles that were about the type of graph 'neighbor joining tree', but misleadingly included race words in the diagram. The file is a user created derivative of Neighbor-joining Tree.svg which does not use any historic race words. This is deliberate unnecessary promotion of modern scientific racism. Diagram re-named to make it clearer, but removing from Wikipedias has to be done case by case, and so may never be completed.

   Renamed Neighbor-joining Tree-2, falsely promoting scientific racism by using Negroid, Mongoloid and Australoid

   Variation of the same file, same issues: Árbol de uniéndose de vecinos.png renamed to Árbol de uniéndose de vecinos, falsely promoting scientific racism by using Negroid, Mongoloid and Australoid

2. File:Mongoloid skull Huxley.png copy from Huxley's 1890 work, but in the text the skull is described as "Calmuck" (i.e. Kalmyks) with no use of race words directly about the diagram. Huxley's book may use "Mongoloid" but it is not justified in the file name, being down to the choice of the uploader. Initially the file was uploaded with a Japanese name which translates as "Kalmyk skull Mongoloid race".

   Renamed to the title used in the source book Side and front views of the skull of a Calmuck.png

3. Malay Tamil mix Mongoloid Australoid Caucasoid.png copy from Herman Lundborg 1921, but checking the source text the several photographs on Fig.31 are not described as "Mongoloid" or "Australoid" or "Caucasoid".

   Renamed to File:Hybrid types of the human race, Journal of Heredity 1921, page 279 fig 31 photo 21 (IA journalheredity09assogoog).png matching the source identity on Internet Archive.

   (Photo 22) Malay Tamil mix 2 Mongoloid Australoid Caucasoid.png renamed to File:Hybrid types of the human race, Journal of Heredity 1921, page 279 fig 31 photo 22 (IA journalheredity09assogoog).png

4. Tungus Mongoloid Blumenbach.png race word used in filename and text when examining the original 16th C. source (in latin) the word was not used in conjunction with the two figures presented.

   Renamed to De generis humani varietate nativa, Fig 1 (IA b2851886x).png and source pages from the full source book added as a gallery.

5. División mapa raza amerindio grupos indio americano nativo genético ADN.png and Genetic group American Native American DNA subrace.png

   Renames to División mapa amerindio grupos indio americano nativo genético ADN.png and Genetic group American Native.png to remove "raza" and "subrace", as tribes are not human races.

6. File:Young Osage Warrior Mongoloid American Indian skull.png source text simply describes the skull as "Osage".

   Renamed to Crania americana, plate 41 (IA Craniaamericana00Mort).png, matching book title and removing unjustified use of 'Mongoloid'.

7. A lot of small badly done crops (looking like criminal mugshots) within Category:Figures from The races of man which unnecessarily, and apparently to cause offence, call every portrait by race words or caste names, though the captions don't justify it.
   • Untouchables of Malabar Kerala Dravidian Australoid.png to The races of man, figure 126 Group of Paniyan men and children of Malabar (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Ainu man of Yezo Mongoloid.png to The races of man, figure 117 (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Ainu woman Mongoloid 2.png to The races of man, figure 49 (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Andaman man Negrito Australoid Negroid.png to The races of man, figure 124 (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Bakairi Carib Indian Mongoloid.png to The races of man, figure 171 Bakairi (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Bororo American Indian Mongoloid.png to The races of man, figure 173 Bororo woman.png
   • Carib American Indian Mongoloid.png to The races of man, figure 167 Kalina or Carib of Dutch Guiana.png
   • Chechen of Daghestan Caucasoid.png to Races of man, figure 110 Chechen of Daghestan (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Chinese Manchu Mongoloid.png to The races of man, figure 118 (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Chinese woman Mongoloid 2.png to The races of man, figure 119 Leao-yu-chow (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Eskimo Mongoloid.png to The races of man, figure 157 (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Georgian Caucasoid.png to The races of man, figure 109 Georgian Imer of Kutais (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Vietnamese of Tonkin Mongoloid.png to The races of man, figure 121 Tong King artisan.png
   • Tungus man Mongoloid.png to The races of man, figure 116 Tunguse hunter.png
   • Gurkha man Caucasoid Australoid Mongoloid Negrito.png to The races of man, figure 125 Gurkha of the Kus or Khas tribe (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Irula girl Australoid India.png to The races of man, figure 127 Irula girl (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Japanese woman Mongoloid 2.png & Japanese woman Mongoloid.png to The races of man, figure 120 - Young Japanese women taking tea (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Khamti of Burma Mongoloid.png to The races of man, figure 122 Khamti of Lower Burma (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
   • Kundrof Tatar Turkoman of Astrakhan Mongoloid Caucasoid Eurasian.png to The Races of Man, figure 107 Kundrof Tatar (Turkoman) of Astrakhan (IA deniofmanoutlinraces00rich).png
8. Crops from Jenks, 1916
   • Mexican Indian Mongoloid to Indian-white amalgamation, plate A (IA indianwhiteamalg00jenk)

Related

Deletion requests

The general category is at Category:Scientific racism deletion requests.

• Deletion requests/File:Race Mongoloid Caucasoid Negroid classification Kroeber 1948.png, DR based on copyright.
• Deletion requests/File:モンゴロイドの競走1903年ブリタニカ百科事典.png, DR based on copyright (filename includes "Mongoloid" in Japanese).
• Deletion requests/File:Genetic Dendogram Indian.png, DR based on COM:HOST.
• Deletion requests/File:Africa Australoid Andaman Caucasoid American Indian Japan Ainu Guam Eskimo Polneysian Cranial Cluster 28 Groups Craniometry.png, DR based on COM:HOST.
• Deletion requests/File:Attractive beautiful female faces composite white black Japanese Asian.png, DR based on being a derived work without a verifiable source.
• Deletion requests/File:Asian race immigration region to America.png, DR based on COM:HOST.

Ongoing problematic files, modern scientific racism

• Mongoloid Australoid Negrito Asia Distribution of Asian peoples Sinodont Sundadont.GIF
• Japanese Mongoloid.png photograph of the Japanese author Fukuzawa Yukichi taken 1862. Not used in source quoted, appears blatantly offensive misuse.

Full reference copies of original historic texts

• File:Indian-white amalgamation; an anthrometric (!) study (IA indianwhiteamalg00jenk).pdf Jenks, 1916

User 2

• Mongoloid types to LA2-Blitz-0263 crop

Related

• File:ORJUNA supporters.png
• File:Cameroon chief German armour.jpg
• File:NSDAP-Logo.svg

Original research which promotes scientific racism

Maps A and B can be replaced with File:The Origin of Races, map 13 (IA B-001-001-289).jpg, which is the original map published in 1962.

Glossary

• "Negative educational value" for Commons is material which is not published in reliable sources, may be hoaxes, and would be misleading if used in Wikipedia articles. Refer to COM:Scope where "educational value" is part of policy for hosting files.
• "Race words" a way on this page of discussing any of the outdated historical words for human races.
• "Caucasoid" a historical word used to describe a white or European race.
• "Negroid" a historical word used to describe a black or African race.
• "Mongoloid" a historical word used to describe a yellow or Asian race.
• "Australoid" a historical word used to describe indigenous Australians as a separate race.