antimiscegenation love

antimiscegenation

Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun US against mixing or blending; especially, against the mixing or blending of races in marriage or breeding

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word antimiscegenation.

Examples

  • After all, the dilution of monoracial purity only comes through producing multiracial children, and this is the result that causes the hysteria in antimiscegenation laws.

    A Word Lesson On "Miscegenation" 2007

  • After all, the dilution of monoracial purity only comes through producing multiracial children, and this is the result that causes the hysteria in antimiscegenation laws.

    SeeLight: 2007

  • Eugenics is, however, an Anglo-American idea, and the United States was indeed the pioneer in state-sanctioned programs of better breeding, which included forced sterilization, antimiscegenation, and immigration restriction.

    Harry Bruinius - An interview with author 2010

  • On Tuesday night, a documentary making its premiere on HBO will revisit the story of Mildred and Richard Loving, an interracial couple who appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966 for the right to live legally in their home state of Virginia, where antimiscegenation laws prevailed.

    A Storyteller Is Seen With New Eyes Lana Bortolot 2012

  • In particular, attitudes have changed markedly since the Supreme Court declared antimiscegenation laws unconstitutional in 1967.

    More Marriages Cross Race, Ethnicity Lines Miriam Jordan 2012

  • Last, in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, another profoundly antilibertarian decision, the Supreme Court held over the lonely dissent of John Marshall Harlan, that the broad police power of southern states could allow them to force segregation in public transportation and public schools, and impose antimiscegenation laws.

    Rand Paul's Wrong Answer 2010

  • But not really, for at the same time Judge Tauro also claimed that the Equal Protection Clause, which in 1967 was used to strike down state antimiscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia, invalidated any state ban on same-sex marriage.

    Judicial Offensive Against Defense Of Marriage Act 2010

  • But not really, for at the same time Judge Tauro also claimed that the Equal Protection Clause, which in 1967 was used to strike down state antimiscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia, invalidated any state ban on same-sex marriage.

    Judicial Offensive Against Defense Of Marriage Act 2010

  • White supremacists proclaimed him a threat to white womanhood, and then responded with lynching and the imposition of rigid segregation in the South, and with police surveillance, ghettoization, and antimiscegenation laws elsewhere in the United States.

    Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

  • The traditional definition of marriage has nothing in common with antimiscegenation laws.

    California Has the Right to Ban Same-Sex Marriages 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.