Definition of "miscegenation" []

• The interbreeding of different races or of persons of different racial backgrounds. (noun)
• Cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races. (noun)
• A mixture or hybridization: "There was musical miscegenation at a time when segregation was the common rule” ( Don McLeese). (noun)

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• "Beginning in the Reconstruction era, when the term miscegenation first was coined, she traces the creation of a racial hierarchy that bolstered white supremacy and banned the marriage of Whites to Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, and American Indians as well as the marriage of Whites to Blacks."
• "Those are the sort of snots that believe "miscegenation" is Just Plain Bad ... or other such guff."
• "What we have with (sub -) cultures that condemn miscegenation is morality being itself unconscionable, the unethical masquerading as the ethical, prejudice wearing a disguise of piety."