miscegenation

Examples of miscegenation in the following topics:

• Racial Stratification

  • These laws were referred to as miscegenation laws (miscegenation means "mixing races").
  • Bazile, told the Lovings during their trial for miscegenation that, 'if God had meant for whites and blacks to mix, he would have not placed them on different continents. ' He also seemed to take pride in telling the Lovings, "as long as you live you will be known as a felon. " The Lovings eventually contacted the American Civil Liberties Union, who took their case to the Supreme Court in 1967, resulting in Loving v.
  • Virginia, which abolished miscegenation laws in the U.S.

• Women and Slavery

  • The law relieved men of the responsibility of supporting their children and confined the "secret" of miscegenation to the slave quarters.

• The Eugenics

  • They tended to believe in the genetic superiority of Nordic, Germanic and Anglo-Saxon peoples; supported strict immigration and anti-miscegenation laws; and supported the forcible sterilization of the poor, disabled and "immoral. "

• Race Relations in Mexico: The Color Hierarchy

  • It promoted the use of planned miscegenation (the mixing of racial groups through reproduction) as a eugenic strategy to improve the overall quality of the population.

• The Eugenics Movement

  • The American Eugenics movement was rooted in the biological determinist ideas of Galton and included those who believed in genetic superiority of specific Caucasian groups, supported strict immigration and anti-miscegenation laws, and supported the forcible sterilization of the poor, disabled and "immoral."

• The Warren Court

  • Their marriage violated the state's anti-miscegenation statute, the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored."