# Brown Skin

Brown is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a light to moderate brown complexion. == In the age of scientific racism == In the 18th and 19th century, European writers proposed geographically based "scientific" differences among "the races". Many of these racial models assigned colors to the groups described, and some included a "brown race" as in the following: In the late 18th century, German anthropologist Johann Blumenbach extended Linnaeus's four-color race model by adding the brown race, "Malay race", which included both the Malay division of Austronesian (Southern-Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Pattani, Sumatra, Madagascar, Formosans, etc.), along with Polynesians and Melanesians of Pacific Islands (including Papuans), as well as Indigenous Australians.