miscegenation

How To Use miscegenation In A Sentence

• 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
• 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
• 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.
• Her poems ‘Cosmopolite’ and ‘Fusion’ both signal great potential in the new hybrid of racial identity that results from miscegenation in the United States.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Her mother died when she was very young (likely as a result of miscegenation, if we are to believe old Hollywood's edicts!
• 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
• The taboo against miscegenation underpinned many of these negative colonial representations.