How to Use miscegenation in a Sentence

miscegenation

noun

• In one instance, a Jew named Heinz Alexander was accused of the racial crime of miscegenation for having had an affair with an Aryan.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
• The structure of the strip was built on reversals: a cat loves a mouse, a dog protects a feline, and, at a time when anti-miscegenation laws held sway in most of the United States, a black animal yearns for a white one.
  — Gabrielle Bellot, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2017
• The ruling struck down anti-miscegenation laws that still existed at that time in several states.
  — Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
• Once married to Ada, a white woman, Ming Tsu was beaten and sentenced to 10 years of hard desert labor after Ada’s bigoted father brought charges of miscegenation.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021
• Ms. Loving, a black woman, and Mr. Loving, a white man, had been sentenced to a year in prison for violating an anti-miscegenation statute that was still valid in Virginia and two dozen other states.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 26 June 2017
• Blacula meets Shaft with some miscegenation anxiety thrown in for kicks.
  — Lea Anderson, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
• My children have grown up with blood relatives born to parents who — up to and including in the year of my birth in more than a dozen states — would not have been allowed to marry due to the historical stain of anti-miscegenation laws.
  — Dan Moran, Lake County News-Sun, 3 Apr. 2018
• These duties included not raping Black women on the side and contributing to miscegenation.
  — Laura Mallonee, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
• The Virginia residents had married in the District of Columbia and then returned to their home state, where they were indicted on a charge of violating the state’s anti-miscegenation laws.
  — Christine Clarridge, The Seattle Times, 11 June 2017
• Is a prohibition of miscegenation a discrimination against the colored member of the couple who would like to marry?
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 5 Feb. 2020
• Eugenic thinking was also used to support racist policies like anti-miscegenation laws and the Immigration Act of 1924.
  — Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
• And since Virginia had an anti-miscegenation law that prohibited blacks and whites from marrying, the state claimed that this provision didn’t violate the Buchanan decision.
  — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
• And since Virginia had an anti-miscegenation law that prohibited blacks and whites from marrying, the state claimed that this provision didn’t violate the Buchanan decision.
  — Katie Nodjimbadem, Smithsonian, 30 May 2017
• Another factor in my slew of offers was likely that the vexing trend toward FDA-pharma miscegenation had entered the minds of those worried about such things as the public interest and fairness and democracy.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, Slate Magazine, 17 Feb. 2017
• The currents in the history of the West preoccupied with miscegenation and corruption of the blood are feeble in the face of the overwhelming tide of annexation, assimilation, and admixture.
  — Daniel Foster, The Atlantic, 10 July 2017
• Somehow, barriers need to be erected against miscegenation.
  — The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
• Once Italian troops invaded Ethiopia, the specter of miscegenation imparted a new urgency to ongoing state efforts to modify comportment and primal drives.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Slate Magazine, 27 Jan. 2017
• In 1937 miscegenation became a criminal offense for all Italians, punishable by five years in prison; women who were discovered having relations with African men were publicly whipped and sent to concentration camps.
  — Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Slate Magazine, 27 Jan. 2017
• Screenshots of the photo and horrific caption soon popped up throughout Instagram, with users calling out his words as being anti-miscegenation (being against interracial relationships).
  — De Elizabeth, Teen Vogue, 2 Aug. 2017
• Not only did most lawmakers support miscegenation laws in the late nineteenth century, but interracial relationships were not accepted by a majority of Americans, in general, in opinion polls, until the 1990s.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 11 May 2022
• In a similar vein, despite valorizing Canudos residents in certain moments, da Cunha concluded that the Northeast’s inferior geology bred inferior men, and that miscegenation put the Brazilian nation at risk.
  — Ela Bittencourt, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
• But because of miscegenation laws that prevented interracial couples onscreen—and rampant yellowface practices—her opportunities were mostly limited to stereotypes like the rejected other woman or the villainous dragon lady.
  — Time, 5 Mar. 2020
• Music history is a history of influences, absorption, appropriation, cultural promiscuity, creative miscegenation.
  — Steve Silberman, WIRED, 29 Oct. 1997

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