miscegenation

Example Sentences

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George doesn’t know at first that Zoe is an octoroon, meaning she’s 1/8th Black, but he refuses to let miscegenation law stand in the way of his heart’s desire.

From Los Angeles Times

He said eugenics theory was used to justify forced sterilization laws, as well as immigration restrictions and miscegenation prohibitions.

From Los Angeles Times

Filled with miscegenation, tentacles and unspeakable dread, his works often begin with ordinary or ordinary-seeming men drawn into extraordinary and otherworldly situations.

From New York Times

The author was thus, she writes, “a child of miscegenation, an interracial marriage still illegal in Mississippi and in as many as 20 other states.”

From New York Times

With a platform that declared “We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race,” the party opposed “the elimination of segregation,” “social equality” or “the repeal of miscegenation statutes.”

From Washington Post