He further notes that it is inconceivable that Abraham would tell his servant to go to Ur Kasdim to find a suitable mate for Isaac, because its inhabitants--the Chaldeans--were
Hamitic and are therefore unsuitable to intermarry with the family of Abraham who were of Semitic descent.
On the civilizational capability there was either no link to Egypt because such a link would only add credence to the decadence of civilization and the validity of the
Hamitic (and by extension African American) curse or there was separation from an enslaving European-like ancient Egyptian civilization and thus identification with Jewish enslavement and thus anti-ancient Egyptian sentiment.
Among these are several distinct tribal groups: the Kababish of northern Kordofan, a camel-raising people; the Ja(tm)alin and Shaigiyya groups of settled tribes along the rivers; the semi-nomadic Baggara of Kordofan and Darfur; the
Hamitic Beja in the Red Sea area and Nubians of the northern Nile areas, some of whom have been resettled on the Atbara River; and the Nuba of southern Kordofan and Fur in the western reaches of the country.
This polarised black/ white world view must also be seen as a counterpart and response to similarly polarised white discourses, most notably the 19th-century '
Hamitic Hypothesis', according to which Egyptian civilisation was not the product of an indigenous African population but of an influx of Caucasian invaders.
Before the last hieroglyphic texts had been inscribed, the image of the taurine aleph profile passed from the
Hamitic south to the Semitic north of the levantine coast, to acquire sound and meaning as the first of the 22 letters of the Phoenician alphabet.
Moreover, the narrative 's conclusion reveals Chesnutt 's anxiety over the post-Reconstruction reclaiming by black churches of
Hamitic identity, a move that suggested to him a voluntary, self-destructive re-assumption of slavery 's chains.
Hamitic peoples travelled south from the Caucasus region from whence the whole earth was repopulated.
Diedonne Gnammankou (Paris--Independent Scholar), "Abraham Petrovitch Hanibal: Deconstruction of the
Hamitic Theory and Its Consequences"
Western Africa appears in Bedford's chronology only long enough to reiterate its location within the tradition of
Hamitic descent, and western Africa as specifically of Phut's progeny.
Henry Morris, director of the Creation Research Institute, claimed that the
Hamitic races are inherently limited by consequences of Noah's curse.
(49.) Thomas Peterson, Ham and Japheth: The Mythic World of Whites in the Antebellum South (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1978); Edith Sanders, "The
Hamitic Hypothesis: Its Origin and Functions in Time Perspective," Journal of African History 10 (1969): 521-32; David Goldenberg, The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Princeton: Princeton Univ.
Language Group Allele Europoid Between-Group Frequency Features * Contact ** Bantu: Eastern High + With Nilotic Bantu: Western Moderate ++ Little to none
Hamitic Low +++ Little to none Nilotic High + With Eastern Bantu Pygmoid Very High 0 Little to none * Europoid Features = the degree to which researchers believed that the tribal people within a language group exhibited Caucasian-like characteristic (height, head shape, skin color, etc.) ** Contact means the amount of immigration, emigration, and intermarriage Table 3.
The immediately preceding people, whom Leir has conquered, are in Paxson's treatment the
Hamitic group who moved up from North Africa through Spain.