miscegenation

Examples of miscegenation in the following topics:

• 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. "

• 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."