Giuseppe Sergi Books

Giuseppe Sergi was an Italian anthropologist best known for his opposition to Nordicism and his works on the racial identity of Mediterranean peoples. He rejected prevailing racial typologies that labeled Mediterranean peoples as "dark whites," as these implied a Nordicist conception of their descent from whites who had become racially mixed with non-whites, which he asserted was false. Sergi defined the Mediterranean race as an autonomous brown race, positing that the Nordic race was descended from the Mediterranean race, whose skin had depigmented to a pale complexion after moving north. This concept became significant in the modeling of racial difference in the early twentieth century.