The Surprisingly Racist History of "Caucasian" | Decoded | MTV News

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Why do we call White People Caucasian? It's an interesting question considering that outside America, Caucasian simply refers to the people from the region around Caucasus Mountains. Not only that, but there's actually a pretty messed up history to what seems like a pretty innocuous word. What is that history? Watch this week's episode of Decoded to find out!!!

Sources:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opin...

https://books.google.com/books?id=F-G...

Tania Das Gupta, Race and Racialization: Essential Readings, 2007, pp. 25-26

https://books.google.com/books?id=9B6...

https://books.google.com/books?id=BML...

http://www.understandingrace.org/hist...

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article...

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5076/

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