Miscegenation - Wikipedia
Miscegenation (/ m ɪ ˌ s ɛ dʒ ə ˈ n eɪ ʃ ən / 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, …
Miscegenation Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MISCEGENATION is a mixture of races; especially : marriage, cohabitation, or sexual intercourse between a white person and a member of another race.
Miscegenation | Interracial, Marriage & Race | Britannica
Nov 5, 2024 — Miscegenation, marriage or cohabitation by persons of different race. Theories that the anatomical disharmony of children resulted from miscegenation were discredited by 20th-century genetics and anthropology. Although it is now accepted that modern populations are the result of the continuous.
Loving v. Virginia: 1967 & Supreme Court Case - HISTORY
Nov 17, 2017 — What Is Miscegenation? The Loving case was a challenge to centuries of American laws banning miscegenation, i.e., any marriage or interbreeding among different races.
MISCEGENATION Definition & Meaning - Dictionary.com
Miscegenation definition: marriage or cohabitation between two people from different racial groups, especially, in the U.S., between a Black person and a white person. See examples of MISCEGENATION used in a sentence.
History of miscegenation - Wikipedia
Miscegenation was a deliberate policy of the Western Australian Protector of Aborigines, A. O. Neville, who hoped to "breed out" Aboriginal characteristics from the growing "half caste" population of Aborigines in Western Australia.
The “Miscegenation” Troll - JSTOR Daily
Feb 20, 2019 — Throughout Miscegenation, the author is at pains to exalt Black Americans as exemplars of “the beau idéal of true manhood.” Though it is full of pseudoscience and faulty reasoning (lots of talk of skull measuring and the effect …
MISCEGENATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
sexual relations between people of different races or the act of producing children from parents of different races: Anti-miscegenation laws prohibiting interracial sex and marriage predate the …
Miscegenation Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
MISCEGENATION meaning: sexual relations or marriage between people of two different races (such as a white person and a black person)
Miscegenation - Oxford Reference
Oct 15, 2024 — Literally ‘mixing of races’, a racist term denoting sexual relations between different races, especially White and Black. Miscegenation was promoted in some systems—for example Portuguese colonialism and the Baha'i religion—as a means of …