antimiscegenation
Banning cross-racial unions
Antimiscegenation describes laws, policies, or attitudes opposing interracial marriage or sexual relations.
The term appears almost exclusively in historical contexts, referring to statutes that criminalized relationships between people of different races: antimiscegenation laws, antimiscegenation statutes.
Such laws were struck down in the United States by the Supreme Court in 1967.
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- ethnocentrismBelief one's culture superior
- xenophobiaHatred of outsiders
mongrelization · amalgamation · supremacist · segregationist · nativist · pseudo-science
Forced separation by group
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- colonial-eraFrom territorial occupation times
- antebellumBefore a war's start
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
Cultural or social prohibition
- ostracismBanishment from a group
- passingMoving by or temporary
- disinheritanceExclusion from inheritance
Formally enacted laws
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- constitutionalityAccordance with founding charter
- invalidationAct of nullifying
- amendmentChange to official text
repeal · enforcement · penalties · felony · annulment · jurisdiction
racism
Prejudice based on ethnicity
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- ethnocentrismBelief one's culture superior
xenophobia · mongrelization · amalgamation · supremacist · segregationist · nativist · pseudo-science
segregation
Forced separation by group
- apartheidRacial separation policy
- colonial-eraFrom territorial occupation times
- antebellumBefore a war's start
Reconstruction · repealed · unconstitutional · archaic · outdated
taboo
Cultural or social prohibition
- ostracismBanishment from a group
- passingMoving by or temporary
- disinheritanceExclusion from inheritance
statutes
Formally enacted laws
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- constitutionalityAccordance with founding charter
- invalidationAct of nullifying
amendment · repeal · enforcement · penalties · felony · annulment · jurisdiction
antimiscegenationrace mixing
Reproduction across ethnic boundaries
mixing · intermarriage · multiracialism · amalgamation · hybridization
antimiscegenationintegration
Combining into a whole
racial equality · desegregation · egalitarianism · civil rights · colorblindness
anti, miscegenation, genus, gene, genes, genetic, genetics, genetically, genome