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Miscegenation
(redirected from Interracial relationship)

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Mixture of races. A term formerly applied to marriage between persons of different races. Statutes prohibiting marriage between persons of different races have been held to be invalid as contrary to the equal protection clause of the Constitution.


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Whatever the film wants to say about interracial relationships is superseded by the various family dynamics at play.
This was especially important for southern courts, which feared that the federal government would intervene in their regulation of interracial relationships if interracial romance and marriage were viewed as civil rights issues.
 
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