The five primary races are the Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Australoid, Congoid, and the Capoid.
The Causasoid has a wide range of skin color from very very light (white) to a very very dark pigmentation (black).
Thanks for pointing that out, sis...as that's a common fact that many people are often unware of when having their ideology based more so on cultural preference rather than objective fact. From what many whites have often said of those in their camp, a lot of people just don't want to admit that dark skin is not an African trait solely due to racial issues/prejudices----with the claim of "I'm not racist to say that whites can't have dark skin!!!!" being a smoke screen when it comes to ignoring the facts. Talked to one of my white peers not too long ago, as she grew up in the Deep South, and she noted how often there were battles for other whites to reconcile the fact that other whites had dark complexion---for in their mind, it was something they really didn't want to deal with and it was easier to think that they could label others based soley on their coloration rather than being challenged to study.
Had similar happen when it came to the church I grew up in. It was a multi-cultural church, where the goak was the goal was to have every tribe and tongue and nation all together worshipping the Lord---and reaching all groups around them if it's within their power...and I'm glad to have been apart of that growing up. At the church I grew up in, known as
Liberty Church of Marietta, under Pastor John Ficthner, they literally had to FIGHT FOR BEING MULTI-CULTURAL (and this from a white pastor whose congregation was predominately white and
HALF LEFT when he started preaching about practicing racial reconcilliation rather than merely theorizing/preaching about it). It was amazing when he, as a white man, discussed what many scientists noted in regards to pigmentation and suggesting that Adam was probably the darkest man on the planet since lighter colors come from darker ones getting lighter over time----and it was wild with him noting that all people are rooted in Africa originally.
It truly blessed my mother and I since we had never seen a church truly like that to that degree back in the late 90's.....and it's something that has always been dear to my heart. On the series my mother and I first heard from our pastor called "Racial Reconcilliation":
It's interesting to consider others who often stereotype based on looks alone since it does have a lot of impact abroad. I'm reminded of the issue of the presidency and how many continually sworn that the president really wasn't black because he didn't look "dark enough"--which was sheer foolishness, IMHO. I think I've mentioned it you before...but one of the Messianic Jewish groups I love listening to----called Hazakim--spoke in-depth on the issue regarding how they were mixed and felt that many of the terms for "black" and "white" were often pitted against one another in ways that seem arbitrary at times...and discussing the discussions within Judaism as it concerns ethnic identity and acknowledging things in one's genes regardless of where they come from. For more, one can go online to their blog and investigate the article entitled
A Multi-Cultural Perspective About "Race" in America And The Presidential Race in America....and for more about them, one can go online/hear their story at their Record Label of "Lamp Mode", as seen in
Lamp Mode Recordings » Hazakim Interview.
As they themselves come from a mixed background, I was glad Hazakim mentioned what they did when it came to debate about whether the President was "Black" or "White" and how that reflects battles others go through daily....and on the larger issue, I'm glad they noted the reality of how you cannot always tell what someone is or where they descend from based SOLELY on how they appear or how they look alone
One can see that plainly when seeing a lot of the battles others have because people rely solely on judging by looks rather than understanding diversity. Some say someone's Hispanic because they have light-skin...even though there are PLENTY of Hispanics who are Dark-Skinned. People don't know how cultures can intersect....and that goes for a myriad of things, such as being
Afro-Hispanic or
Afro-Latin American ....and being
Afro-Latino myself, I've often had many battles in seeking to explain things to people who had no idea of the variations. The same as it concerns those who are black and yet they're
Afro-Asians (i.e.
Asian-African or Asian-African AMerican mix).
I've experienced it many times when other black associates would often ask me what my ethnic background was---and when I told them that my mother was Hispanic and I was mixed, they'd sometimes look at me and say "Stop denying that you're BLACK!!!!!". The reason they would do this is because in their minds, they only had ONE interpretation of what it meant to be Hispanic or "Spanish. ANd not surprisingly, they went SOLEY by looks alone. Those within my own family would always have to clarify to others where we stood when it came to having to make clear that "Spanish" didn't mean looking like others from the Spanish channels (i.e. having white/light skin and olive hair, etc). It would simply floor some of my associates that being dark-skinned could ever be apart of anything Spanish or Hispanic.
The same thing goes for other groups as well who don't fit the stereotype, like saying all Jamaicans are dark-skinned and yet ignoring the variety even present there
'I AM A JAMAICAN!!'
For other places to consider, some good sources to go for more info would be sources such the
PBS Series by Louis Gates entitled "Black in Latin America" and
Review of Part 1 of PBS' Black in Latin America Haiti 
