miscegenation
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin misceō (“mix”) + genus (“race”).
Reportedly coined in an anonymous propaganda pamphlet printed in New York City in December 1863, entitled Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro.[1] See further discussion.
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miscegenation (uncountable)
- (chiefly US) The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.
- (figuratively) A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.
- 1991, Frederick Turner, Rebirth of Value: Meditations on Beauty, Ecology, Religion, and Education, page 57:
- as is clear in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, it has a horror of any spiritual miscegenation between the human and the natural.
- 1981, Dale Maurice Riepe, Asian Philosophy Today, page 22:
- ... if a miscegenation of Latin and Sanskrit may be permitted.
- 2001, Ken Hirschkop, David Shepherd, Bakhtin and Cultural Theory, page 180:
- ...'true English' before it was bastardised in its miscegenation with the Norman French.
- 1991, Frederick Turner, Rebirth of Value: Meditations on Beauty, Ecology, Religion, and Education, page 57:
[edit] Usage notes
Although pejorative when applied to individuals in reference to sexual congress, the term miscegenation has been repurposed by academics to analyze the emotions, reactions, and anxieties held by people about interracial couplings.
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[edit] Derived terms
- miscegenative / miscegenetic / miscegenic / miscegenistic / miscegenous (adj.)
- miscegenationist / miscegenist (adj. and n.)
- antimiscegenation (US)
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[edit] Translations
the mixing or blending of race
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "The Miscegenation Hoax". Museum of Hoaxes. URL accessed on 2008-04-02.
