race mixing
Cross-cultural genetic blending
Race mixing refers to sexual relationships, marriage, or reproduction between people of different racial backgrounds.
The term carries a clinical, often disapproving tone, associated historically with opposition to interracial unions: Laws against race mixing remained on the books in some states until 1967.
Those who use the term neutrally or approvingly typically prefer other phrases like interracial marriage or mixed-race families.
- multiracialOf multiple ethnicities
- intermarriageWedding between different groups
- one-drop ruleAny ancestry means full classification
- one dropTiniest liquid quantity
- mulattoMixed-race person, archaic
hybrid vigor · creole · crossbreeding · mestizo · hybridization · ethnic diversity · heredity · melting pot · miscegenation · Loving v. Virginia · multiculturalism · assimilation · blood quantum · colonial heritage · genetic diversity · integration · passing · colorism
race mixingendogamy
Marriage within one's group
racial purity · inbreeding · blood purity · homogamy · assortative mating
race mixingracial segregation
Separation by ethnic background
racial purity · segregation · apartheid · racial separation · Jim Crow
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