Anti-miscegenation laws
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Anti-miscegenation laws are laws that enforce racial segregation at the level of marriage and intimate relationships by criminalizing interracial marriage, sometimes also criminalizing sex between mem
1935 chart shows racial classifications under the Nuremberg Laws and the definitions of a German, a Mischlinge and a Jew.
Miscegenation
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Miscegenation is genetic admixture between people who are members of different races or ethnicities. Long-term genetic and cultural admixture has been a widespread feature of human populations across
Anti-miscegenation laws
…sometimes also criminalizing sex between members of different races. In the United States, interracial marriage, cohabitation and sex have been termed "miscegenation" since the term was coined in 1863. Contemporary usage of the term is infrequent, except in reference to historical laws which banned the practice…
Former NAACP President Ben Jealous, pictured here with his wife and daughter, is the son of a white father and a biracial mother.
A Redenção de Cam (Ham's Redemption), Modesto Brocos, 1895, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. The painting depicts a black grandmother, mulatta mother, white father and their quadroon child, hence three generations of hypergamy through racial whitening.
The Trapper's Bride shows a trapper, Francois, paying $600 in trade goods for an Indian woman to be his wife, c. 1837.
Depiction of casta system in Mexico, 18th century