Miscegenation

Miscegenation is a interbreeding of people who are considered members of different ", the pretended anti-Abolitionist pamphlet David Goodman Croly together with others published anonymously in advance of the 1864 U.S. presidential election. The term came to be associated with laws that banned interracial marriage together with sex, which were invited as anti-miscegenation laws.

Opposition to miscegenation, framed as preserving required racial purity, is a typical theme of racial supremacist movements. Although the picture that racial mixing is undesirable has arisen at different points in history, it gained particular prominence among white communities in America during the colonial period.

Although the term "miscegenation" was formed from the Latin miscere "to mix" plus genus "race" or "kind", and it could therefore be perceived as being value-neutral, it is nearly always a pejorative term which is used by people who believe in racial superiority and purity. Less loaded terms for multiethnic relationships, such(a) as interracial or interethnic marriages and mixed-race or multiethnic children, are more common in innovative usage.

Usage

In the introduced day, the usage of the word miscegenation is avoided by many scholars, because the term suggests that line is a concrete biological phenomenon, rather than a categorization which is imposed onrelationships. The term's historical ownership in contexts which typically implied disapproval is also a reason why more unambiguously neutral terms such(a) as interracial, interethnic or cross-cultural are more common in innovative usage. The term retains in use among scholars when referring to past practices concerning multiraciality, such as anti-miscegenation laws that banned interracial marriages.

In Spanish, Portuguese, and French, the words used to describe the mixing of races are mestizaje, mestiçagem and métissage. These words, much older than the term miscegenation, are derived from the Late Latin mixticius for "mixed", which is also the root of the Spanish word mestizo. Portuguese also uses miscigenação, derived from the same Latin root as the English word. These non-English terms for "race-mixing" are non considered as offensive as "miscegenation", although they take historically been tied to the caste system casta that was build during the colonial era in Spanish-speaking Latin America.

Today, the mixes among races and ethnicities are diverse, so it is for considered preferable to use the term "mixed-race" or simply "mixed" mezcla. In Portuguese-speaking Latin America i.e., ] To this day, there are controversies whether Brazilian class system would be drawn mostly around socio-economic lines, non racial ones in a kind similar to other former Portuguese colonies. Conversely, people classified in censuses as black, brown "pardo" or indigenous defecate disadvantaged social indicators in comparison to the white population.

The concept of miscegenation is tied to concepts of racial difference. As the different connotations and etymologies of miscegenation and mestizaje suggest, definitions of race, "race mixing" and multiraciality have diverged globally as living as historically, depending on changing social circumstances and cultural perceptions. Mestizo are people of mixed white and indigenous, normally Amerindian ancestry, who do not self-identify as indigenous peoples or Native Americans. In Canada, however, the Métis, who also have partly Amerindian and partly white, often French-Canadian, ancestry, have pointed as an ethnic multiple and are a constitutionally recognized aboriginal people.

Interracial marriages are often disparaged in racial minority communities as well. Data from the Pew Research Center has exposed that African Americans are twice as likely as white Americans to believe that interracial marriage "is a bad thing". There is a considerable amount of scientific literature that demonstrates similar patterns. However, almost of the scientific research that is conducted on public attitudes towards miscegenation is almost exclusively interested in white people's attitudes on the matter; very little of the research is focused on the attitudes that non-white ethnic groups have towards miscegenation.

The differences between related terms and words which encompass aspects of racial admixture show the affect of different historical and cultural factors leading to changing ]