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Miscegenation
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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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41) And indeed, Binford's bald prose style left little need for such exegesis; his talk of "familiarity" and "racial mixture" in regard to a film as innocuous as, for instance, the comedy Brewster's Millions, clearly bespoke a barely-latent anxiety concerning something other than white-led race riots, while his curious avoidance of direct verbal confrontation with the miscegenational aspects of Lost Horizons showed the subsumption of the concept into "social equality.
Black and white and banned all over: race, censorship and obscenity ... by Strub, Whitney / Journal of Social History
The Prince conforms, in the first instance, to the paradigm of the transgressive Moor who strives for a miscegenational union which is doomed to pollute his European partner.
Portia and the Prince of Morocco by Ungerer, Gustav / Shakespeare Studies
Marriage, our marriage, our miscegenational marriage, fed the wife comedically.
Plants and ghosts by Woodward, Solon Timothy / African American Review
 
 
 
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