miscegenation

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Miscegenation laws were declared unconstitutional, and the rate of interracial marriage climbed.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The striking new feature of the work, however, is a brief account of what leading thinkers and the press have said about such perplexing problems as the "Birth of a Nation," "Miscegenation," and "Segregation."

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various

Miscegenation continued; and Labat notices two cases of marriage between whites and blacks,— describing the offspring of one union as "very handsome little mulattoes."

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio

Miscegenation, or the mingling of races, is a universal phenomenon among the historical races.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra

In that journal, under date of February 25, 1864, he devoted a two-column leader to the subject of Miscegenation and the little pamphlet in question.

From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor)