noun. Cohabitation, sexual relations, marriage, or interbreeding involving persons of different races, especially in historical contexts as a transgression of the law.

noun. Mixture or amalgamation of races: applied especially to sexual union between individuals of the black and white races.

noun. A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.

noun. The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage.

noun. A mixing or blending, especially one which is considered to be inappropriate.

noun. reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons)

"Beginning in the Reconstruction era, when the term miscegenation first was coined, she traces the creation of a racial hierarchy that bolstered white supremacy and banned the marriage of Whites to Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, and American Indians as well as the marriage of Whites to Blacks."

miscegenate  

miscegenationist  miscegenative  miscegenetic  miscegenic  miscegenist  

breeding  facts of life  procreation  reproduction  

extrapolation  plangency  recordor  treasure-house  unfruitfulness  

a world-without-end bargain  alliance  bed  bond of matrimony  bridebed