How To Use Miscegenation In A Sentence
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In the early twentieth century, African American literary depictions of miscegenation abound, but most of these dramas and narratives are set in US cities and perhaps overseas in Paris or London.
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White supremacists proclaimed him a threat to white womanhood, and then responded with lynching and the imposition of rigid segregation in the South, and with police surveillance, ghettoization, and antimiscegenation laws elsewhere in the United States.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583
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Of course, in the genre of domestic colonial fiction, the great danger posed by interracial marriage is continued miscegenation and racial degeneration.
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Fear of miscegenation and xenophobia and the consequent race riots resulted in restrictive legislation against the importation of Pacific and Chinese labor.
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To them, Lincoln's election necessitated secession because a Republican-controlled federal government would prompt either the ultimate miscegenation of the races or a cataclysmic race war.
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The saguaro is a monstrosity in fact as well as in appearance, -- a product of miscegenation between plant and animal, probably depending for its form of life history, if not for its very existence, on its commensals." [
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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He, too, explores the taboo of interracial sex, but it is ultimately poverty - not miscegenation - that brings about the demise of his main characters.
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Actually, screw all of the above-I prefer intermixed, which is a nice word for miscegenation, which is another keystone of this town's identity.
World Hum
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With his images, Alexie draws up an American identity where aboriginality appears in a constant state of becoming, where any claim to authenticity must contend with a continual process of miscegenation.
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Laws against miscegenation were still on the books in many states, and it was only a decade since the Brown decision of 1954, which ruled that segregated schooling was inherently unequal.
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While I am in favor of preserving the racial integrity of my people, and deplore miscegenation in all its phases, I am not blind to the fact that amalgamation is no longer a theory, but well-nigh an accomplished fact; and if the interblending of the races keeps up in the same ratio it has gone on in the past, it will be totally consummated in the not distant future.
The Negro and the White Man
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In "the Book of Songs", there are multiple primogenitor's images in Huaxia nations. Their marriages reflect the marital system of immemorial miscegenation and monogamy.
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But, as the situation in the colonies changed due to conflicting views about the rise in miscegenation and the growing numbers of offspring from such liaisons, a new opportunity arose for women.
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Most whites in America have some black blood due to miscegenation during the slavery era and hence are legally black themselves.
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The specter of miscegenational rape is hinted at throughout the story, which may be why Twain was unable to finish it.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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The text, in its subversion of racial and cultural purity, posits miscegenation and hybridity as potentially positive, even liberating, forces.
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The question remains of why, between 1935 and 1937, the courts often delivered relatively mild judgements, and why a harsher judgement practice only gradually emerged in matters concerning miscegenation.
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The traditional definition of marriage has nothing in common with antimiscegenation laws.
California Has the Right to Ban Same-Sex Marriages
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His fellow clubmen had heard him proclaim that miscegenation was the only hope of the white race, and his intimates knew, in a general way, of his attraction to dark-skinned women.
The Five of Hearts
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In particular, attitudes have changed markedly since the Supreme Court declared antimiscegenation laws unconstitutional in 1967.
More Marriages Cross Race, Ethnicity Lines
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They will only tell us to lynch black men who want to marry white women for their "miscegenation," behead rape victims for their "adultery," stone those who utter a certain string of phonemes for their "blasphemy," burn at the stake men who have sex with other men for their "sodomy".
Archive 2009-08-01
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Especially strong is his exploration of the theme of miscegenation in Star Trek; he argues that Spock and other biracial characters are latter-day versions of the tragic mulatto stereotype.
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Last, in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, another profoundly antilibertarian decision, the Supreme Court held over the lonely dissent of John Marshall Harlan, that the broad police power of southern states could allow them to force segregation in public transportation and public schools, and impose antimiscegenation laws.
Rand Paul's Wrong Answer
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Worst of all, the men of the community gossip that she sleeps with white men, an allegation that stimulates discussion of issues of miscegenation, integration, and racial betrayal.
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Her poems ‘Cosmopolite’ and ‘Fusion’ both signal great potential in the new hybrid of racial identity that results from miscegenation in the United States.
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Not only did laws against miscegenation limit the personal and civil freedom of white men but these same laws also often served to encourage interracial couples to maintain a sexual relationship outside of marriage.
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On Tuesday night, a documentary making its premiere on HBO will revisit the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple who appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966 for the right to live legally in their home state of Virginia, where antimiscegenation laws prevailed.
A Storyteller Is Seen With New Eyes
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Their 500-year history of miscegenation was an unhappy one, the result of European colonisation, exploitation of the native Amerindian population and a long history of African slavery.
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Her mother died when she was very young (likely as a result of miscegenation, if we are to believe old Hollywood's edicts!
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But not really, for at the same time Judge Tauro also claimed that the Equal Protection Clause, which in 1967 was used to strike down state antimiscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia, invalidated any state ban on same-sex marriage.
Judicial Offensive Against Defense Of Marriage Act
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The taboo against miscegenation underpinned many of these negative colonial representations.
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On the other side from the fire was a large polished wood structure, the product of miscegenation between a coatstand and a sideboard.
A DEATH IN TIME
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Miscegenation, he says, is "essentially unnatural and destructive", and mixed-race children "are the most tragic victims of enforced multi-racism".
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I seek here to explore these questions of miscegenation and homosexuality in these literary and cultural texts, demonstrating the conundrum of nationalism in the context of the indubitable threat of oppression.
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Eugenics is, however, an Anglo-American idea, and the United States was indeed the pioneer in state-sanctioned programs of better breeding, which included forced sterilization, antimiscegenation, and immigration restriction.
Harry Bruinius - An interview with author
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Moral disfavour is something you're going to have to get used to, we fear, especially if you're going to carry on preaching the condemnation of homosexuality in a culture that now very often, and more so by the day, deems that message as obsolete and objectionable as the condemnation of "miscegenation.
Archive 2010-03-01
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Rather, Jefferson, in line with the general anti-miscegenationist sentiments of the day, was more concerned with ensuring a system of primogeniture based on a presumed purity of bloodlines.
Editorial
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This literary trend is reason enough to call into question the conceptual alignment between the personal and the political informing Faulkner's ambivalent responses toward miscegenation.
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After all, the dilution of monoracial purity only comes through producing multiracial children, and this is the result that causes the hysteria in antimiscegenation laws.
A Word Lesson On "Miscegenation"
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By tackling the taboo topic of miscegenation and representing it in both the form and content of her plays, Kennedy represents the African American struggle against both external and internal oppression.
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In his opinion, miscegenation, illegitimacy, and racial impurity had no place in the construction of a pure and legitimate national race.
