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Miscegenation
(redirected from Racial mixing)

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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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Racial mixing mattered in Indian history, but exactly how it mattered is not always clear.
Much of the book follows in the tradition of performance studies, which suggests that performance itself is "not a site for unproblematic, reciprocal racial mixing and exchange, as some would have it, but the contrary: a site of profound social contestation and negotiation" (147).
Exploring that point, Justice Stephen Breyer asked Rosenkranz whether Bob Jones University, which opposes racial mixing, would have the same right as law schools to protect its message and receive federal funding.
 
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