THE' Negro ' In Arab Consciousness , Abdullah Ali Politics

THE' Negro ' In Arab Consciousness , Abdullah Ali PoliticsWhat is the negro? Who qualifies? What is its Arabic equivalent? And, what did pre modern writers mean by it? There is a common belief that the negro refers to any black person of sub Saharan African heritage. Historians, however, often differentiate between the Moor, the Nubian, the Ethiopian, the Kushite, and the Negro. Why this distinction if all black Africans and those of African heritage presumably belong to a common pedigree? This books author,

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