How to Use miscegenation in a Sentence
miscegenation
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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
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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
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The ruling struck down anti-miscegenation laws that still existed at that time in several states.
—Jerry Large, The Seattle Times, 8 June 2017
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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
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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
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Blacula meets Shaft with some miscegenation anxiety thrown in for kicks.
—Lea Anderson, Men's Health, 29 Aug. 2022
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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
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These duties included not raping Black women on the side and contributing to miscegenation.
—Laura Mallonee, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2022
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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
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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
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Eugenic thinking was also used to support racist policies like anti-miscegenation laws and the Immigration Act of 1924.
—Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Somehow, barriers need to be erected against miscegenation.
—The Economist, 27 Mar. 2021
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Music history is a history of influences, absorption, appropriation, cultural promiscuity, creative miscegenation.
—Steve Silberman, WIRED, 29 Oct. 1997
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