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Miscegenation
Miscegenation meaning
The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage. | A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.
Synonyms of Miscegenation
Example sentences (8)
Look at Benzi Gopstein, an avowed Jewish supremacist and leader of the violent anti-miscegenation group Lehava, who for years has succeeded in turning young working class Mizrahim in Jerusalem into against Palestinians in the city.
His dubious scientific work influenced contemporaneous laws pertaining to immigration, miscegenation, and eugenics, which, lest anyone forget, governed the codes of a majority of states prior to World War II.
His nomination stirred up controversy about the mixing of whites and blacks in public life and fears of miscegenation (especially as he had married a much younger white woman after his first wife died).
In The Cultural Life of Modern America (1889), he expressed his fear of miscegenation: "The Negros are and will remain Negros, a nascent human form from the tropics, rudimentary organs on the body of white society.
In the United States, legal segregation was required in some states and came with anti-miscegenation laws (prohibitions against interracial marriage ).
Miscegenation was the rule between the native and the European cultures and people.
Other states had such laws until 1967, when the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in Loving v. Virginia that anti-miscegenation laws across the nation are unconstitutional.
Though Anna May Wong had been suggested for the role of O-Lan, the Hays Code anti- miscegenation rules required Paul Muni's character's wife to be played by a white actress.