Miscegenation is sex between individuals of differing racial groups. Miscegenation is interbreeding of Whites and non-Whites. We see miscegenation in a mulatto who is an individual with mixed black and white heritage. Miscegenation is mixing of people considered to be of different racial types. Miscegenation is mixing of genes. Miscegenated means produced by miscegenation, that is, produced of mixed descent. The Supreme Court of the United States struck down miscegenation laws in the year 1967. In the United States, the state laws prohibited the marriage of whites and blacks, and many state laws prohibited the intermarriage of whites with Native Americans or Asians. Such laws were known as anti-miscegenation laws.
A Quantitative History of Anti-Miscegenation Legislation in the United States, 1880-1940. Washington, Scott Leon. Abstract: Putting to work an independently compiled dataset containing over 30 decades and 300 years of anti-miscegenation activity in the United States (1661-1967), the current paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the spread and intensification of anti-miscegenation statutes, in states across the country, between 1880 and 1940. After identifying why 1880-1940 was such a peculiar period in the history of anti-miscegenation legislation, the paper furnishes a series of contagion models predicting the anti-miscegenation profiles of individual states as a function of the anti-miscegenation profiles of adjacent states, in four, geographically distinct regions: the South, the West, the Midwest, and the Northeast.
The American Melting Pot? Miscegenation Laws in
the United States.
Cruz, Barbara C.; Berson, Michael J. OAH.
Abstract: Explores miscegenation in U.S. history, some motivations for anti-miscegenation
policy, and the landmark decision of the 1967 case of Loving v. Virginia.
Includes three recent examples of miscegenation policy in the United States with questions
for class discussion.
Between Hoax and Hope: Miscegenation and
Nineteenth-Century Interracial Romance
By Katharine Nicholson Ings.
This essay surveys recent scholarship on interracial romance during the nineteenth century
using the hoax Miscegenation pamphlet of 1863 as a lens. An anonymous and ironic piece of
writing that promoted race-mixing from a deceptively Republican perspective, Miscegenation
coined the titular term, newly situating interracial relationships within a Latinate,
pseudo-scientific framework. I read the Miscegenation pamphlet as a kind of scientific romance fiction itself.
Slavery's Shadow Families: Rethinking Miscegenation Regulation,
Davis, Adrienne.
Abstract: Miscegenation regulation appears to be the sexual manifestation of social apartheid, and
law worked to secure sexual racial apartheid. The second narrative of interracial intimacy
is about antebellum slavery and its sexual injustices and injuries. Slavery comprised a sexually libertarian regime, one in which white men could
pursue their intimate interests at will. Each of these two narratives represents the
injuries of miscegenation regulation in very specific ways, as reinforcing racial
hierarchies by securing sexual apartheid or by inflicting racial injury by protecting
white men's unfettered sexual access to black women.