White africa

North Africa including the Sahara

White Africa is an outdated antonym for the outdated designation of sub-Saharan Africa "Black Africa". It refers to the countries north of the Sahara , i.e. North Africa or the Maghreb states and Egypt , which are inhabited by peoples with lighter skin color , such as the Arabs and Berbers . This does not mean European settlers and their descendants, such as the Boers in southern Africa, who were also called White Africans out of date .

The term was coined by Dominik Josef Wölfel and from 1941 also spread by the racial theorist Eugen Fischer .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hugo Adolf Bernatzik: The great ethnology: Europe. Afrika , Bibliographisches Institut, 1939, pp. 225-226
2. ^ ^{A b} Hans-Walter Schmuhl : Crossing boundaries. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Human Heredity and Eugenics 1927–1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-799-3 ( Google books )
3. ↑ Gert Theile: Anthropometry: to the prehistory of man made to measure. Fink, Munich 2005, ISBN 3770538641 ( Google books )