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"miscegenation" Definitions
  1. the fact of children being produced by parents who are considered to be of different races, especially when one parent is white

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Miscegenation and wars until the last white man is gone.
The decision also revoked anti-miscegenation laws in 20153 other states.
"Stop promoting miscegenation or else I'm taking my $ elsewhere!!!" read another.
Virginia, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that struck down miscegenation laws.
Could you warn against miscegenation using M&Ms and Reese's Pieces next?
They live in 1960s Virginia, where there is an anti-miscegenation law.
They were arrested, handcuffed, jailed and convicted of violating Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws.
Den Lykkelige Familie's owner, Hui Juan Xu, is unbothered by the culinary miscegenation.
In Elizabethan drama, the sexual transgression of "miscegenation" was punishable only by death.
For decades such crimes were ill defined, but once included things like miscegenation.
But, according to the home's website, the couple never married due to miscegenation laws.
Races could develop on their own, the theory went, but miscegenation would cause decline.
Another is the dilution of Judeo-Christian values through rampant secularization, migration and miscegenation.
She lived in Hollywood with a Chinese cinematographer, but anti-miscegenation statutes prevented them from marrying.
The purpose of this summit was to try and find common ground on issues like preventing miscegenation.
It's the fear of miscegenation Berry tapped into here, treating the subject with subtlety, wit, and determination.
The small pony-tailed eleventh grader gleefully staged dramatic spectacles meant to trigger Southern anxiety about miscegenation.
A new word, "miscegenation," conjured up a new threat, the fear of the mixing of the races.
Though white masters fathered many slave children, miscegenation was frowned upon, and later criminalised in most American states.
According to the judge who tried their case, the Lovings had defied the state's miscegenation code, a classifiable felony.
Virginia, which struck down anti-miscegenation laws across the country, enshrining a landmark victory for the civil rights movement.
He referred the matter to the American Civil Liberties Union, which challenged the constitutionality of Virginia's anti-miscegenation law.
Eugenic thinking was also used to support racist policies like anti-miscegenation laws and the Immigration Act of 1924.
Enter Mildred and Richard Loving, a Virginia couple whose 1967 Supreme Court case dealt a major blow to miscegenation laws.
It feels right that this outreach to Team Refugees should have happened in Rio, a city of miscegenation and openness.
Striking down anti-miscegenation laws was an important blow to segregation and a victory for civil rights activists in the 1960s.
To escape Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws, my mother staged her own disappearance, going underground to marry my father in New York.
At the time the couple took their vows -- in neighboring Washington, D.C. -- 24 states had anti-miscegenation laws on the books.
Virginia case in 1967, the landmark ruling that lifted anti-miscegenation laws and made it possible for interracial couples to marry.
Miscegenation laws in as many as 41 states helped to keep these dangerous whites from subverting slavery, and later Jim Crow.
They are also a direct reference to "The Shadow over Innsmouth," a racist HP Lovecraft tale about the horrors of "miscegenation".
Not only has our country's history of racism and anti-miscegenation influenced Brown's take, his own personal experiences have made it clear.
The rhetoric used to win their passage was explicitly racist and supporters played on white men's fears of miscegenation and losing power.
The Hays Code's anti-miscegenation clause was removed in 1956, but it still rendered black love and intimacy nonexistent on the screen.
I don't recall the moment in 1967 when the United States Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia.
Though Brazil was late to outlaw slavery, in 1888, it did not adopt the segregation and miscegenation laws that ensued in America.
Thanks to the anti-miscegenation laws of the 1930s and the film industry's Hays Code, interracial love was forbidden at the time.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth implies that miscegenation with Pacific Islanders lead to the deterioration of hearty New England folk into fish people.
A second, related question is how much miscegenation with pre-existing hominids the migrants from Makgadikgadi indulged in as they spread and multiplied.
In other states across the West such as Utah and Wyoming, similar anti-miscegenation laws were on the books until the early 1960s.
The movie came out at a time when at least 17 states had anti-miscegenation laws on the books that forbid interracial marriages.
At the same time, there's a conventional way we're meant to deal with miscegenation in pop culture, which is with a certain reverence.
Even when they are arrested for violating the miscegenation laws, the police officers are not unduly forceful, and address them in plain, legal language.
He thinks he can take it all the way to the Supreme Court, doing away with a cruel anti-miscegenation law in the process.
Less than 50 years ago, the United States still upheld anti-miscegenation laws that made it illegal for people of different races to marry.
His latest release, the timely miscegenation drama Loving, seems poised to put him in the thick of the Oscar conversation for the first time.
On its surface, "The Sport of Kings" has enough incident (arson, incest, a lynching, miscegenation, murder) to sustain a 1980s-era television mini-series.
Miscegenation laws date back as far as the 1620s, and like many other things in American history served the purpose of upholding white supremacy.
In law school at "Ole Miss" in the 1950s, he wrote a law review article defending the state's anti-miscegenation laws against constitutional attack.
In March 1948 — six months before the Supreme Court of California declared the state's miscegenation ban unconstitutional — she married a man with German ancestry.
The poet, who had a particular horror of miscegenation, was writing about my parents' wedding (and yes, he rhymed "Peggy Cripps" with "Negroe's lips").
Virginia passed its first anti-miscegenation law in 1691, partly to prevent what it called "spurious issue," or what most people just call children.
Florida, in which the Supreme Court overturned a Florida law that prohibited an interracial couple from living together under the state's anti-miscegenation statutes.
In the case of white nationalism, the "white race" is threatened with extinction due to widespread miscegenation and the erosion of white supremacist social norms.
When Mildred and Richard Loving's case came before the Supreme Court, 21 states — including Virginia, where the couple lived — had "anti-miscegenation" laws on the books.
As early as the eighteen-forties, black and white abolitionists in Boston had waged successful campaigns against anti-miscegenation laws and racial separation in public schools.
But in 1957, he was fired after he married Eugenia Jones, a white opera singer, in Chicago: Anti-miscegenation laws were then in force in Missouri.
"As Perez Hilton reported, one user, @mak_morn3, wrote the following before making his tweets private: "Your clothes are crap quality and now you're promoting miscegenation. Disgusting!
Extreme notions of ethnic purity lie at the heart of the ideology (South Koreans have not only been corrupted by American capitalism but polluted by miscegenation, too).
Those vows in effect banished them from their home state, which for generations had outlawed what was known then as miscegenation — Mildred was black and Richard white.
The gist: In 1958 Virginia, a quiet mixed-race couple (Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga) are arrested for choosing to get married, in defiance of miscegenation laws.
The decision went all the way to the Supreme Court, which found that the state of Virginia's anti-miscegenation laws violated the 14th amendment and were racist.
But rather than lean into her stardom, she decided to marry Mr. Arnett in 1967 (violating Maryland's anti-miscegenation laws) and buy a house in central Baltimore.
Miscegenation in parts of the country was a crime and sometimes punishable by death, and even if it wasn't on the books, unofficially it was punishable by death.
White supremacists feared black Republican domination; they viewed it as the gravest threat to white supremacy since the nation's founding (besides "brute" black masculinity and miscegenation, that is).
These ideas are old, rooted in scientific racism and fears of miscegenation once held by Progressive Era stalwarts like President Woodrow Wilson and white supremacist hate groups alike.
But while we've come a long way since the days of gross anti-miscegenation laws that forbade couples of different races to marry, we've still got work to do.
One creator who goes by Jouelzy says her video "Is Cardi B Black?" is really an exploration of anti-miscegenation laws and racial identity as a function of colonization.
My grandfather was Filipino and my grandmother was white; in California, where they were married, the anti-miscegenation laws forbade whites from marrying blacks, Asians, and Filipinos until 1948.
It's a time "marked by the spread of integration and miscegenation," according to an unnamed race theorist in the opening sequence (he's played with palpable animosity by Alec Baldwin).
His own early writing, including a widely read 1963 essay called "My Negro Problem — And Ours," which disparaged integration but encouraged miscegenation, offered "something to offend everyone," he said.
Given no opportunity to explain, it was really brutal For Chinese already living in the US, exclusion meant decades of family separation, legal insults (like anti-miscegenation laws), and violence.
It also curtailed the rights of non-whites already there in the same ways as it did the rights of its black population, with laws against miscegenation and the like.
A series of books, beginning, in 1933, with Gilberto Freyre's " The Masters and the Slaves ," turned miscegenation, once a source of fear and shame, into a font of national pride.
This year, the producers of "Loving," a film about the Supreme Court case that ended anti-miscegenation laws, sent H.F.P.A. members wedding cakes topped with interracial bride-and-groom figurines.
Those exigencies, combined with a reputation for bushwhacking during the civil war—and, above all, the enduring queasiness about miscegenation—turned the Melungeons, in their neighbours' imaginings, into renegades and bogeymen.
After they got married in 1958, the Virginia couple was quickly arrested by a local sheriff for breaking the state's anti-miscegenation law, which banned marriages between people of different races.
The case landed in the Virginia Supreme Court and the justices decided unanimously on June 12, 1967 that the purpose of miscegenation laws was rooted in racism and violated the Constitution.
At the time they wanted to marry, Virginia—along with dozens of other states—was still under strict anti-miscegenation laws that made it illegal to marry someone of a different race.
The A.C.L.U. took up the case and brought it all the way to the United States Supreme Court, which struck down miscegenation laws — those that enforced segregation in intimate relationships — in 1967.
These white supremacists, many wealthy and powerful, used the threat of "black domination" to scare poorer whites into allegiance, warning them of race-mixing, miscegenation and the rape of white women and girls.
His fifth feature, it tells the story of rural Virginia couple Mildred and Richard Loving, who were at the center of the Supreme Court case that finally struck down anti-miscegenation laws in 1967.
With their multicultural lifestyle and their perfectly synchronized skin color, the two of them represent the ideal outcome of generations of progressive activism, a repudiation of America's history of slavery, segregation and criminalized miscegenation.
His fear of racial miscegenation translated to a recurring theme in his work, which usually depicted humans as members of cults who worship the creatures — and who eagerly breed with them as a result.
I use that phrase in a poem, 'Miscegenation,' but this is the 33rd year that I've lived without my mother, and so it felt like those 33 more years and now another sort of trauma.
In 1948, Knight's great-grandson Davis Knight was tried and convicted for miscegenation, a crime "against the peace and dignity of the State of Mississippi," that carried a penalty of five years in the penitentiary.
Directed by Jeff Nichols, the film follows the Lovings' journey all the way to the United States Supreme Court, where the outcome of their 1967 case finally deemed the country's anti-miscegenation laws as unconstitutional.
The Ethiopian-Irish actress stars as the reluctant civil rights activist in Jeff Nichol's Loving, which tells the true story of how Mildred and her husband Richard helped to end anti-miscegenation laws in America.
The whole journey is a merciless satire on the themes of white fear, guilt, and hypocrisy, played out in the always charged language of miscegenation—only, this time, with the current of that charge reversed.
For me, the day kicked off with Loving, the low-key true-life story of Virginia residents Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down miscegenation laws in 1958.
Of course, while we've come a long way from those anti-miscegenation laws, that doesn't mean that interracial couples are without their fair share of struggles — but the Lovings give us reason to celebrate, nonetheless.
At the time, it was illegal for them to wed in their home state of Virginia due to miscegenation laws, and they traveled to DC to tie the knot after Mildred realized she was pregnant.
That all changed thanks to one brave couple, who fought for and won the right to live together as husband and wife in the state of Virginia, where anti-miscegenation laws were still in place.
But then in the early 1970s, a quarter-century after his death, a birth certificate was found stating that Herriman was born "colored" to Creole parents in that 19373th-century hotbed of miscegenation, New Orleans.
Its male protagonist, after all, is a rural, working-class white man, a laborer named Richard Loving, whose marriage to his longtime sweetheart, Mildred Jeter, ultimately led to the striking down of anti-miscegenation laws.
Virginia (1967), in which the Court discounted Virginia's stated reason for its anti-miscegenation law as preserving racial purity for all races; it held that the actual reason for criminalizing interracial marriage was white supremacy.
Also, "Loving," the eponymous account of the 1960s struggle, by a rural inter-racial couple whose marriage was not recognized by Virginia, to overturn in the Supreme Court the last of the nation's anti-miscegenation laws.
Because of the case's ongoing judicial significance — and because "miscegenation" is still a term that gets used in 2016 — the temptation to make Loving a film that's mostly furious about its subject must have been high.
Seen through the prism of its central couple, it's blessed with the uplifting hallmarks of an old-fashioned "feel-good" movie, exploring anti-miscegenation laws that persisted for years after the birth of America's biracial president.
Ms. Loving, a black woman, and Mr. Loving, a white man, had been sentenced to a year in prison for violating an anti-miscegenation statute that was still valid in Virginia and two dozen other states.
The story is a thinly veiled screed against miscegenation where the populace of Innsmouth have, in exchange for wealth, interbred with deep ones—think The Creature from the Black Lagoon—and now resemble half-people half-fish hybrids.
Mr. Nichols ("Mud") based his latest film on the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, whose marriage broke their state's anti-miscegenation law and led to the landmark Supreme Court ruling that deemed marriage a human right.
In those so-called caste paintings, people were classified: criollo (American-born to European parents), mestizo (Spanish and Amerindian), mulato (Spanish and African), and so on, showing Spanish colonial society as acutely race-conscious, yet rife with miscegenation.
The musical and erotic thrill of miscegenation, of contact with an exoticized other-among-us imbued with projected musical, sexual and possibly criminal power, is hardly unique to the American imagination: Brazil, or the Roma diaspora, comes to mind.
The audacity of the "Saga" series of graphic novels, written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Fiona Staples, lies first in its allegorical examination of who fears "miscegenation" and why, and second in its defiance of the usual conventions.
And that coincided with the so-called one-drop rule, which was an old racist rule in America in which one drop of black blood made someone legally black and therefore subject to slavery or Jim Crow or miscegenation laws.
This is an updated version of an older conspiracy theory known as white genocide, which propounds that the world's white population is being deliberately shrunk and diluted through mass immigration, low fertility rates, multiculturalism and miscegenation (Mr Crusius also inveighed against "race mixing").
And across the Atlantic, they found it in an entire system of race-based caste laws and practices: America's Jim Crow segregation, citizenship laws, and anti-miscegenation laws; the doctrine of Manifest Destiny that masked a genocide; the wholehearted embrace of eugenics.
And even two hours and 19 minutes isn't enough to cover the sprawling ground it wants to: slavery, racism, class wars in the South, emancipation, apprenticeship laws, Reconstruction, Antebellum, interracial relationships, Black voting rights, 20th-century miscegenation laws, the KKK, and more.
All this is often tied to the fear of "white genocide", or white "replacement", ie, the notion that the "white race" is being squeezed out of existence through its own low birth rate, miscegenation and more prolific reproduction by non-white people.
Naomie Harris and Mahershala Ali received attention for their roles in "Moonlight"; Dev Patel was nominated for "Lion"; and Ruth Negga made the best actress cut for "Loving," a gentle portrait of a real-life couple whose marriage ended anti-miscegenation laws.
Other horror movies like "Candyman" and "Ganja & Hess" have explored miscegenation and assimilation, but Mr. Peele said he set out to make a movie that exposed "the lie" of a post-racial America, one that grew after the election of Mr. Obama.
His plan to create an office to publicize crimes by unauthorized immigrants — shaming and demonizing the entire population — is more nakedly vicious, guilt by association, a reflection of the old strain of American intolerance that brought us internment camps and miscegenation laws.
Kennedy referred Mildred and Richard Loving's case to the American Civil Liberties Union, and in 1967, eleven years after the couple had been exiled from Virginia for violating the state's anti-miscegenation laws, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down legislation that prohibited interracial marriages.
Why black Americans are more likely to die in childbirth or from infectious diseases has long been explained with biological theories rather than social ones, a way of thinking that underpinned Jim Crow policies of higher insurance rates for black people and racial miscegenation laws.
That label is tongue-in-cheek, though just as Mary Shelley's fevered novel hints at societal fears of miscegenation and "impurity," the notion that these baked goods represent unholy unions suggests that there are clear borders in the culinary world that one ought not cross.
The Carpetbagger One of the quieter films on the awards-season circuit is Jeff Nichols's profound "Loving," about an interracial couple in Jim Crow Virginia whose fight against anti-miscegenation laws went to the Supreme Court and resulted in a landmark decision overturning those bans.
Many of the movement's various subcommunities have insisted that the word is (warning: the following two links contain hate speech) strictly racist and that its origins center on white men being disempowered by miscegenation and other forms of interaction with members of other races.
Over the next several years, the couple, guided by a young lawyer named Bernie Cohen, failed on their way up through the courts, until, on June 12, 1967 — now known as Loving Day — the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Virginia's miscegenation laws violated the 14th Amendment.
"Thule was one of the names they gave to what they believed was the ancient Aryan homeland, a prehistoric Aryan utopia that collapsed because of racial miscegenation or a flood or what have you," said Eric Kurlander, a professor of history at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla.
"Thule was one of the names they gave to what they believed was the ancient Aryan homeland, a prehistoric Aryan utopia that collapsed because of racial miscegenation or a flood or what have you," said Eric Kurlander, a professor of history at Stetson University in DeLand, Fla.
For a time, she lived in communes and foster homes; one couple who put her up were interested in her primarily, she told me, because she had a black boyfriend—they gave a "miscegenation party," where they served black-and-white cake to black-and-white couples.
Virginia had different forms of miscegenation laws on the books stretching back to the 1600s, and the state's 1924 Racial Integrity Act defined anyone who wasn't entirely white as "colored" -- the only exception was made for those who were 1/16 Native American, but even that had restrictions.
There are conceptual meditations, from "Cosmic Latte" — a visual manifesto by J. Mayer H. and Philip Ursprung that looks at the ubiquity of beige in our built environment — to Marshall Brown's photo collages that illustrate what the architect calls "creative miscegenation" — the "cross-breeding" of architectural forms throughout time.
These disciples, instead of calling for an "Islamic holocaust," can argue that rootedness in one's homeland matters, and that immigration, miscegenation, and the homogenizing forces of neoliberal market economies collude to obliterate identities that have taken shape over hundreds of years—just as relentless development has decimated the environment.
When looking at the past 15 years of electronic music, it's most necessary to look at Since I Left You as a part of a symbiotic whole, a record in a group of records that individually changed the way indie culture looked at sampling and cross-genre miscegenation.
CANNES, France — In "Loving," which was unveiled here on Monday to raves, the director Jeff Nichols tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the interracial couple whose 1958 marriage broke Virginia's anti-miscegenation law and eventually led to the landmark Supreme Court ruling that deemed marriage a human right.
Appeals to overturn the ban were denied by the Ministry which maintained that the book was not appropriate for teaching in Israeli schools because "intimate relations between Jews and non-Jews threatens the separate identity" and teenagers did not have the mental capacity to understand the "significance of miscegenation" (interracial relationships).
That history — the Virginia couple, Richard and Mildred Loving, were arrested in 221 and put in jail for the crime of miscegenation — wasn't something I learned about in school, even in my highly educated, middle-class California college town, the one with the great public schools and the proudly liberal politics.
On the left of the screen are scenes from a 1959 documentary about the life of the sociologist Gilberto Freyre, who founded that Recife museum, and whose concept of democracia racial — the dubious claim that Brazil, through miscegenation and immigration, developed a racial harmony unique in the Americas — still has adherents.
It is a rightist, nativist, nationalist and, yes, "völkisch" reaction against globalization, against migration, against miscegenation, against the disappearance of borders and the blurring of genders, against the half-tones of political correctness, against Babel, against the stranger and the other, against the smug self-interested consensus of the urban, global elite.
Some believe the universal right to free expression should extend to all, even ideas that are deemed a threat to the public interest (as homosexuality was only a generation ago) or which are a threat to prevailing conventional wisdom and political norms (as miscegenation was in much of the country, as well).
Throughout the 21th century, fears regarding miscegenation and "race mixing," rooted in a belief that the dilution of white bloodlines — bloodlines that offered political, economic, and social authority over nonwhites — would result in societal disaster led to states across the country banning interracial marriages and enforcing strict rules regarding exactly what it meant to be white.
The first is a quick prologue set some time in the 1950s, with Alec Baldwin as a man recording a blatantly racist PSA about the insidious "spread of integration and miscegenation" propagated by the "Jewish puppets on the Supreme Court," except he keeps stumbling over his words and barking at an unseen woman helping him film.
In the ideology of Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist, Wilders, the French nationalist leader Marine Le Pen, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, and Poland's rightist string-puller Jaroslaw Kaczynski are part of the vanguard in what Bannon sees as the coming "very brutal and bloody conflict" for a white-dominated Christian order against Muslims, migration and miscegenation.
A 2016 piece by scholar Jimmy Johnson (which, full disclosure, I gave feedback on) posits an inherent anti-blackness within the "interracial" porn category by juxtaposing the "one-drop rule" with the idea that, through this tabooed and fetishized sexual interaction, Black men are "blackening" the white women they share scenes with and penetrate, voiding their racial purity through this act of miscegenation.
When it comes to "realistic" contenders, there's really only one: Loving's Joel Edgerton, as one half of the interracial couple whose gentle persistence saw anti-miscegenation laws struck down in the US. But in a category this threadbare, crazy things can happen, which is why you probably shouldn't count out Deadpool's Ryan Reynolds, much as I hate to say it.
In "Beneath a Ruthless Sun: A True Story of Violence, Race, and Justice Lost and Found," Gilbert King recounts how the sheriff descended on the cabin rendezvous of two interracial couples in 1956 and arrested them for violating Florida's anti-miscegenation statute — but not before trying to enlist his deputies to help him throw the black men "to the alligators" and daring one of the men to run.
So, too, did Jim Jarmusch's remarkable Paterson, about a week in the life of a poet-bus driver in the mostly black part of the titular New Jersey town; Jeff Nichols's Oscar-ready miscegenation drama Loving, and Dutch bad boy Paul Verhoeven's Isabelle Huppert vehicle Elle, a movie that will turn conventional feminist thinking on its head and surely inspire volley of think pieces when it finds its way to North America.
As a 229-year-old Asian American male who is the eldest child of parents who were able to emigrate to America from China in 268  (the Chinese Exclusion Act did not apply to my half-Chinese/half-English father, a child born from the social crime of miscegenation in New York in 268 before growing up in China), my curiosity about the selection criteria was further piqued when I read a statement that Hockley made about Toyin Ojih Odutola, who was born in Nigeria and emigrated to America when she was five: She encapsulates all of these categories: immigrant, citizen, native-born, foreign-born, native speaker, ESL learner, African-American, but not African-American in the way that we generally mean it here […].

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