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Miscegenation (/mɪˌsɛdʒəˈneɪʃən/mih-SEJ-ə-NAY-shən) is marriage or admixture between people who are members of different races.[1] The word, now usually considered pejorative, is derived from a combination of the Latin terms miscere ('to mix') and genus ('race' or 'kind').[2] The word first appeared in Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro, a hoax anti-abolitionist pamphlet David Goodman Croly and others published anonymously in advance of the 1864 presidential election in the United States.[2][3] The term came to be associated with laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, which were known as anti-miscegenation laws.[4] These laws were overruled federally in 1967, and by the year 2000, all states including Alabama had removed them from their laws. In the 21st century, newer scientific data shows that human populations are actually genetically quite similar. Studies show that races are more of an arbitrary social construct, and do not actually have a major genetic delineation.
Although the term "miscegenation" was formed from the Latin for "mixing races/kinds", and it could therefore be perceived as being value-neutral, it is almost always a pejorative term which is used by people who believe in racial superiority or purity,[5] and possibly intended to be negative in the erroneous belief that it derives from the prefix mis-. Less loaded terms for multiethnic relationships, such as interethnic or interracial marriage, and mixed-race, multiethnic, or multiracial people, are more common in contemporary usage.
^"Miscegenation Definition & Meaning". britannica.com. Britannica Dictionary. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
^"Miscegenation; the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro". Library of Congress. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
^Downing, Karen; Nichols, Darlene; Webster, Kelly (2005). Multiracial America: A Resource Guide on the History and Literature of Interracial Issues. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8108-5199-3.
^Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2002. Retrieved 11 July 2020. The term is used esp. by people who believe in concepts of racial superiority or racial purity and therefore object to interracial relationships ....
Miscegenation (/mɪˌsɛdʒəˈneɪʃən/ mih-SEJ-ə-NAY-shən) is marriage or admixture between people who are members of different races. The word, now usually...
The Miscegenation hoax, taking the form of a pamphlet subtitled The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro,...
Court of the United States in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. Anti-miscegenation laws were repudiated in 1967 by Loving v. Virginia. Generally, segregation...
apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation. The word, now usually considered pejorative, first appeared in Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of...
blood. The word miscegenation was used in an anonymous propaganda pamphlet printed in New York City in late 1863, entitled Miscegenation: The Theory of...
performers of different racial groups Miscegenation, the mixing of different racial groups Anti-miscegenation laws in the United States Commission on...
killed by white men. For each son, I take many... scalps.") The theme of miscegenation also runs through the film. Many critical analyses of The Searchers...
in Nazi Germany (Nazi eugenics). It was marked by efforts to avoid miscegenation, analogous to an animal breeder seeking purebred animals. This was often...
as miscegenation, as an invisible, prime characteristic of cultural capital is emphasised in his work. The word amalgamation means miscegenation. When...
such as prohibitions against interracial marriage (enforced with anti-miscegenation laws), and the separation of roles within an institution. The U.S. Armed...
Illegal consumption (such as prohibition of drugs, alcohol, and smoking) Miscegenation Piracy Regicide Terrorism Usurpation War crimes Crimes against animals...
April 2021. Navarrete Linares, Federico. "El mestizaje en Mexico" [The miscegenation in Mexico] (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1...
eliminate) mixed-race populations by legal means are defined in anti-miscegenation laws, such as passed by various states in the United States. While customs...
language, the terms miscegenation and amalgamation were used for unions between whites, blacks, and other ethnic groups. The term 'miscegenation' initially replaced...
American ethnic group marry within their ethnic group. The first ever anti-miscegenation law was passed by the Maryland General Assembly in 1691, criminalizing...
controversial issues of the mid-twentieth century, such as racism and miscegenation, as well as views on homosexuality and escapism during that time period...
It is opposed to the Christian presence in Israel. It has an anti-miscegenation focus, denouncing marriages between Jews and non-Jews forbidden by Orthodox...
gradual extinction which had been caused by a declining birth rate and miscegenation. Hitler's death in 1945 was viewed as a type of martyrdom; a voluntary...
Illegal consumption (such as prohibition of drugs, alcohol, and smoking) Miscegenation Piracy Regicide Terrorism Usurpation War crimes Crimes against animals...
Illegal consumption (such as prohibition of drugs, alcohol, and smoking) Miscegenation Piracy Regicide Terrorism Usurpation War crimes Crimes against animals...
as well as many endogamous baradaris among South Asian Muslims Anti-miscegenation laws Arranged marriage Assortative mating Consanguinity Ethnic nationalism...
illegal traffic in drugs; Any inference of sex perversion; White slavery; Miscegenation; Sex hygiene and venereal diseases; Scenes of actual childbirth—in fact...
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