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
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
The term multiracial people refers to people who are of two or more races, while the term multi-ethnic people refers to people who are of more than one ethnicity. A variety of terms are or have been u
Miscegenation
…strict racial/ethnic separation, systems of caste, or cultures of social conservatism. Adjectives describing miscegenation include "inter-ethnic", "mixed-race", "multiethnic", "multiracial", and "interracial". The English word miscegenation derives from the Latin words miscere ("to mix") and genus ("kind" or…
Extended Coloured family from South Africa.
Uyghur musicians in Yarkand, Xinjiang
Mestizos as illustrated in the Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas, 1734.
Bob Marley's mother is of African descent and his father is of European ancestry.