What is another word for miscegenation?

Pronunciation: [mɪsˌɛd͡ʒənˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Miscegenation is a term that is typically used to refer to interracial marriage or reproduction between people of different races. However, this term has derogatory connotations due to its historical use to justify laws that prohibited interracial relationships. As such, many people prefer to use more neutral or positive language when discussing interracial relationships. Synonyms that are often used include intermarriage, interracial marriage, mixed marriage, interbreeding, cross-breed, mixed-race relationships, and multicultural marriage. By using these more positive terms, we can acknowledge and celebrate the diversity of human relationships and promote equality and inclusivity.

What are the hypernyms for Miscegenation?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    intermarriage, interracial marriage, interracial coupling, mixed-race marriage.

What are the hyponyms for Miscegenation?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the opposite words for miscegenation?

Miscegenation refers to the interbreeding of individuals from different racial groups, which has been a controversial topic for centuries. However, there are several antonyms for the term miscegenation that have different connotations. Firstly, "homogeneity" refers to the state of being the same or uniform; therefore, it represents the idea of maintaining racial purity within one group. Secondly, "segregation" refers to the separation or isolation of a specific group from others, based on race, class, or social status. Finally, "unification" represents the merger or merging of diverse racial groups into one cohesive whole. Each of these antonyms represents a different perspective on the issue of race and racial mixing.

What are the antonyms for Miscegenation?

Usage examples for Miscegenation

This state of things startles one, as all miscegenation does, and this particular European-Eskimo alliance is different from all others.
"The New North"
Agnes Deans Cameron
The latter separated themselves from the whites, and miscegenation largely decreased.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
During a recent agitation against miscegenation in Rhodesia a number of letters written by white women appeared in the press from which it was easy to gather that the chief concern of the writers was not the possible degradation of the whites, though this was not overlooked, but rather the simple fact that some white men were cohabiting with black women to the prejudice of the matrimonial chances of eligible women of their own race.
"The Black Man's Place in South Africa"
Peter Nielsen

Famous quotes with Miscegenation

  • We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation.
    Lester B. Pearson
  • The antipathy of the English settlers to the Indians was far too great to lead to the sort of miscegenation which was encouraged by the French … In the British colonies the half-breed was looked upon as an Indian … It was not until within the lifetime of those now living that an infusion of Indian blood became a subject of pride … unless one makes exception for such isolated tales as the somewhat grotesque Pocahontas tradition in Virginia.
    Madison Grant
  • Taking the country over, the Whites who have married Indians have not been of a high class. But the total number of Indians in the United States is so small that their future is probably that of being absorbed in the White race through miscegenation, unless it be for a few tribes cultivating a racial purity of their own and, with favorable economic conditions, perpetuating themselves for a long time to come.
    Madison Grant
  • Now the trickiest catch in the negro problem is the fact that it is The black vastly inferior. There can be no question of this among contemporary and unsentimental biologists—eminent Europeans for whom the prejudice-problem does not exist. , it is a fact that there a very grave and very legitimate problem For the simple fact is, that No normal being feels at ease amidst a population having vast elements radically different from himself in physical aspect and emotional responses. A normal Yankee feels like a fish out of water in a crowd of cultivated Japanese, even though they may be his mental and aesthetic superiors; and the normal Jap feels the same way in a crowd of Yankees. This, of course, implies permanent association. We can all exotic scenes and like it—and when we are young and unsophisticated we usually think we might continue to like it as a regular thing. But as years pass, the need of old things and usual influences—home faces and home voices—grows stronger and stronger; and we come to see that mongrelism won't work. We require the environing influence of a set of ways and physical types like our own, and will sacrifice anything to get them. Nothing means anything, in the end, except with reference to that continuous immediate fabric of appearances and experiences of which one was originally part; and if we find ourselves ingulphed by alien and clashing influences, we instinctively fight against them in pursuit of the dominant freeman's average quota of legitimate contentment. . . . All that any living man normally wants—and all that any man worth calling such will stand for—is as stable and pure a perpetuation as possible of the set of forms and appearances to which his value-perceptions are, from the circumstances of moulding, instinctively attuned. That is all there is to life—the preservation of a framework which will render the experience of the individual apparently relevant and significant, and therefore reasonably satisfying. Here we have the normal phenomenon of race-prejudice in a nutshell—the legitimate fight of every virile personality to live in a world where life shall seem to mean something. . . . Just how the black and his tan penumbra can ultimately be adjusted to the American fabric, yet remains to be seen. It is possible that the economic dictatorship of the future can work out a diplomatic plan of separate allocation whereby the blacks may follow a self-contained life of their own, avoiding the keenest hardships of inferiority through a reduced number of points of contact with the whites . . . No one wishes them any intrinsic harm, and all would rejoice if a way were found to ameliorate such difficulties as they have without imperilling the structure of the dominant fabric. It is a fact, however, that sentimentalists exaggerate the woes of the average negro. Millions of them would be perfectly content with servile status if good physical treatment and amusement could be assured them, and they may yet form a well-managed agricultural peasantry. The real problem is the quadroon and octoroon—and still lighter shades. Theirs is a sorry tragedy, but they will have to find a special place. What we can do is to discourage the increase of their numbers by placing the highest possible penalties on miscegenation, and arousing as much public sentiment as possible against lax customs and attitudes—especially in the inland South—at present favouring the melancholy and disgusting phenomenon. All told, I think the modern American is pretty well on his guard, at last, against racial and cultural mongrelism. There will be much deterioration, but the Nordic has a fighting chance of coming out on top in the end.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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