ur-race

plural ur-races · alternative Ur-race

1. A primitive, primordial, or original race; a proto-race

   Günther adduced from this fact that the characteristics of the ur-race could be determined from close observation of contemporary Armenians.

   2009, Alan E Steinweis, Studying the Jew: Scholarly Antisemitism in Nazi Germany - Page 28

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   The Jew, then, was at once seen as the definitive race and an equivocal one – at once the embodiment of an Ur-race and the composite body of a mongrel race.

   2008, Daniel A. Novak, Realism, Photography and Nineteenth-Century Fiction - Page 108

   “Aryanism” broadened but also still racialized ideas about the origins of civilization by incorporating all speakers of Indo-European languages, including Indian speaker of Sanskrit-based tongues, into a single, civilizing ur-race, as in Sir Henry Maine's Taming Cannibals.

   2011, Patrick Brantlinger, Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians - Page 118

plural Ur-races

1. alternativeAlternative form of ur-race.