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A multiracial European family walking in the park. Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different "races" or racialized ethnicities.. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United States, Nazi Germany and apartheid-era South Africa as miscegenation (Latin: 'mixing types').
Historically, mixed-race offspring of black and white people such as mulattos and quadroons were often denominated to whichever race had the lower status, an example of the "one-drop rule", as a way to maintain the racial hierarchy. When slavery was legal, most mixed children came from an African American mother and white father.
Miscegenation (/ m ɪ ˌ s ɛ dʒ ə ˈ n eɪ ʃ ən / mih-SEJ-ə-NAY-shən) is a pejorative term for a marriage or admixture between people who are members of different races. [1]Modern science regards race as a social construct, an identity which is assigned based on rules made by society.
[59] [60] The most notable American of mixed race is the former President of the United States, Barack Obama, who is the product of a mixed marriage between a black father and a white mother. Nevertheless, as late as 2009, a Louisiana justice of the peace refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple, justifying the decision on ...
The first anti miscegenation law in Oregon was passed in 1866. It stated that "all marriages of white persons with Negroes, Chinamen, or mulattoes are void, and are prohibited," effectively prohibiting interracial marriages involving African Americans, Chinese individuals, and individuals of mixed race. [29]
The terms multiracial people refer to people who are of multiple races, [1] and the terms multi-ethnic people refer to people who are of more than one ethnicities. [2] [3] A variety of terms have been used both historically and presently for multiracial people in a variety of contexts, including multiethnic, polyethnic, occasionally bi-ethnic, biracial, mixed-race, Métis, Muwallad, [4] Melezi ...
In 1905, German South West Africa banned the "Rassenmischehe" (racial mixed marriage). These bans had no legal basis in German citizenship laws (issued in 1870 and 1913) and the "decrees [were] issued by either a colonial governor or the colonial secretary", they were "not laws that had received the approval of the Reichstag".
Multiracial Americans, also known as Mixed Americans, are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races.The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule).