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Noun(1) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons(2) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)

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(1) they believe in miscegenation as the answer to world peace(2) The taboo against miscegenation underpinned many of these negative colonial representations.(3) Laws against miscegenation were still on the books in many states, and it was only a decade since the Brown decision of 1954, which ruled that segregated schooling was inherently unequal.(4) To them, Lincoln's election necessitated secession because a Republican-controlled federal government would prompt either the ultimate miscegenation of the races or a cataclysmic race war.(5) Not only did laws against miscegenation limit the personal and civil freedom of white men but these same laws also often served to encourage interracial couples to maintain a sexual relationship outside of marriage.(6) He, too, explores the taboo of interracial sex, but it is ultimately poverty - not miscegenation - that brings about the demise of his main characters.(7) This literary trend is reason enough to call into question the conceptual alignment between the personal and the political informing Faulkner's ambivalent responses toward miscegenation .(8) Her poems u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Cosmopoliteu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb and u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510Fusionu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb both signal great potential in the new hybrid of racial identity that results from miscegenation in the United States.(9) In his opinion, miscegenation , illegitimacy, and racial impurity had no place in the construction of a pure and legitimate national race.(10) Of course, in the genre of domestic colonial fiction, the great danger posed by interracial marriage is continued miscegenation and racial degeneration.(11) In the early twentieth century, African American literary depictions of miscegenation abound, but most of these dramas and narratives are set in US cities and perhaps overseas in Paris or London.(12) But, as the situation in the colonies changed due to conflicting views about the rise in miscegenation and the growing numbers of offspring from such liaisons, a new opportunity arose for women.(13) I seek here to explore these questions of miscegenation and homosexuality in these literary and cultural texts, demonstrating the conundrum of nationalism in the context of the indubitable threat of oppression.(14) Her mother died when she was very young (likely as a result of miscegenation , if we are to believe old Hollywood's edicts!(15) Fear of miscegenation and xenophobia and the consequent race riots resulted in restrictive legislation against the importation of Pacific and Chinese labor.(16) The question remains of why, between 1935 and 1937, the courts often delivered relatively mild judgements, and why a harsher judgement practice only gradually emerged in matters concerning miscegenation .