Merriam Webster wrote:miscegenation noun mis·ce·ge·na·tion | \ (ˌ)mi-ˌse-jə-ˈnā-shən, ˌmi-si-jə-ˈnā-\
: a mixture of races especially : marriage, cohabitation, or sexual intercourse between a white person and a member of another race
The idea that one must stick to one's own community, ethnicity, race, or tribe when marrying is as at least as old as the oldest books of the Bible. Old Testament passages describe miscagenation with women outside the tribe as a "trespass" against Israel. (see citations)
The marriage of prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, to American actress , Meghan Markle, raised eyebrows and had the queen making squirelly faces at her during the wedding ceremony. British news media openly described Markle as quote, "Britain's first mixed-race princess."
Meghan Markle wrote:My dad is Caucasian and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. While my mixed heritage may have created a grey area surrounding my self-identification, keeping me with a foot on both sides of the fence, I have come to embrace that. To say who I am, to share where I'm from, to voice my pride in being a strong, confident mixed-race woman.
As one can imagine, far-right nationalist groups within the United Kingdom had more :cough: colorful language to describe the royal wedding between English Prince and LA-born actress.
The state of Maryland had laws on-the-books that prohibited marriages in that state between black+Filipino, Filipino+white, and black+white couples. That state law was not repealed until 1967.
A spate of American states began to repeal their on-books miscagenation laws after a landmark case in 1959 in Virginia. "Loving v. Virginia" was a case that went to the supreme court. It involved a mixed-race marriage where the families were in different states. Interestingly the couple was charged wtih cohabitation, their marriage was not even recognized as legal in Virginia. In successive years, repeals came in Idaho (1959) , Nevada(1959), Arizona(1962), Nebraska(1963), Utah(1963), Indiana(1965), Wyoming(1965).
I will add my own personal anecdote. I remember clearly a documentary that was aired on MTV that followed a british host and his black girlfriend. The entire documentary took place inside the United States and parts of Texas. It aired in the middle 1990s. The core message of the documentary was the issue of dating someone outside of one's race. This was still considered a taboo topic at the time. I may also say , anecdotaly, that in the year 1989 the United States was still very culturally segregated. The Arsenio Hall show, running in six seasons from 1989 to 1994 was a catalyst for introducing "white America" to a sector of popular culture they had never seen. It is not a coincedence that a white rapper, Vanilla Ice, appeared at the same time.
For brevity. WEC = White/European/Caucasian
In the year 1950, the USA's population was 90% WEC. Even by the year 1960, WECs still made up 89% of the population in the entire country. This means that the total of Hispanic, Latino, African-American, east Asians, Indians all combined made up only 11% of the population pie chart.
The US Census Bureau projects that by 2043, WECs will be the minority in the United States.
This 83-year decline from 89% white majority to a 49% white minority has been given a name by certain radical groups. Particularly among White Nationalists and neo-nazi groups, they dub it The Great Replacement. The core idea of a "great replacement" is what underlies the chants of "Jews will not replace us", chanted in unison by tiki-torch weilding protestors in Charlottesville , Virginia in August of 2017.
Days following in Charlottesville, a member of the tiki-torch weilding protestors rammed his car into a crowd intentionally. This resulted in 28 serious injuries and the death of one woman. The driver was recently sentenced to life in prison.
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Citations
https://www.epi.org/publication/the-cha ... ing-class/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
https://www.census.gov/library/publicat ... s1-10.html
https://news.sky.com/story/meghan-markl ... n-11378988
Bible Old Testament Passages. ("stranger" in King James english means "foreigner") ("Strange woman" is basically a foreign woman.) ("miscagenation" appears in the KJV as the verb "to mingle", and "mingle" in KJV means "to mix". In modern parlance, essentially "race mixing". ) Ezra 9:1 + Ezra 9:2 , Jdg 11:2 ,Isa 56:5 + Isa 56:6 , Isa 62:8 , Prov 5:3 , Prov 23:27 , all of 9th chapter of Ezra.