Main article: Anti-miscegenation laws Laws banning "race-mixing" were enforced in certain U. All these laws primarily banned marriage between persons of different racially or ethnically defined groups, which was termed "amalgamation" or "miscegenation" in the U. The laws in Nazi Germany and laws in many U. In the United States, various state laws prohibited marriages between whites and blacks, and in many states they also prohibited marriages between whites and Native Americans or Asians.
From until , 30 out of the then 48 states enforced such laws. Virginia that anti-miscegenation laws are unconstitutional. With this ruling, these laws were no longer in effect in the remaining 16 states that still had them. The Nuremberg Laws classified Jews as a race, and forbade extramarital sexual relations and marriage between persons classified as "Aryan" and "non-Aryan".
Violation of this was condemned as Rassenschande lit. The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act in South Africa, enacted in , banned intermarriage between different racial groups, including between whites and non-whites.
The Immorality Act , enacted in , also made it a criminal offense for a white person to have any sexual relations with a person of a different race. Both laws were repealed in History of ethnoracial admixture and attitudes towards miscegenation[ edit ] Africa[ edit ] Jean Ping the Deputy Prime Minister of Gabon who has a Chinese father and a black Gabonese mother was elected as Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union on 1 February Jerry John Rawlings , an ex-president of Ghana , is the son of a Scottish father and a black Ghanaian mother.
Africa has a long history of interracial mixing with male Arab and European explorers, traders and soldiers having sexual relations with black African women as well as taking them as wives. Arabs played a big role in the African slave trade and unlike the trans-atlantic slave trade most of the black African slaves in the Arab slave trade were women.
Most of them were used as sexual slaves by the Arab men and some were even taken as wives. In South Africa there are big mulatto communities like the Coloureds and Griqua formed by White colonists taking native African wives.
In the former Portuguese Africa now known as Angola , Mozambique and Cape Verde racial mixing between white Portuguese and black Africans was fairly common, especially in Cape Verde where the majority of the population is of mixed descent.
There have been some recorded cases of Chinese merchants and labourers taking African wives throughout Africa as many Chinese workers were employed to build railways and other infrastructural projects in Africa.
These labour groups were made up completely of men with very few Chinese women coming to Africa. Many of their offsprings have gained prominent positions in Africa. Jean Ping , the son of a Chinese trader and a black Gabonese mother, became the deputy prime minister as well as the foreign minister of Gabon and was the Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union from to Nicolas Grunitzky , who was the son of a white German father and a Togolese mother, became the second president of Togo after a coup.
Indian men, who have long been traders in East Africa , sometimes married among local African women. These interracial unions were mostly unilateral marriages between Indian men and East African women. However, due to the lack of Chinese females entering the country, the Chinese men eventually established sexual unions with Indian women. Eventually their attitudes changed as well and Chinese men established sexual relationships with Indian women.
In the last years, various ethnic groups Africans , Chinese , English , French , Gujarati Indians , Tamil Indians have arrived and settled on the island. There have been mixed race people on the island since its first permanent inhabitation in Madagascar[ edit ] There was frequent intermixing between the Austronesian and Bantu-speaking populations of Madagascar. A large number of the Malagasy today are the result of admixture between Austronesians and Africans.
This is most evident in the Mikea , who are also the last known Malagasy population to still practice a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Additional information is that most of the African admixture is patrilineal while most of the Austronesian admixture is matrilineal. This means that the majority of the intermixing were between black African males and Austronesian females.
Maximum-likelihood estimates favour a scenario in which Madagascar was settled approximately years ago by a very small group of women of approximately For example, the census found 1, "irregular" Chinese-Malagasy unions and legitimate, i. Children were registered by their mothers under a Malagasy name. Velma Demerson was imprisoned in for carrying the child of a Chinese father; she was deemed "incorrigible" under the Female Refuges Act , and was physically experimented on in prison to discover the causes of her behaviour.
So-called anti-miscegenation laws , barring blacks and whites from marrying or having sex, were established in colonial America as early as Thomas Jefferson 's policy proposal for dealing with Native Americans was "to let our settlements and theirs meet and blend together, to intermix, and become one people". The first laws banning interracial marriage were introduced in the late 17th century in the slave-holding colonies of Virginia and Maryland Later these laws also spread to colonies and states where slavery did not exist.
It has also been argued[ by whom? The bans in Virginia and Maryland were established at a time when slavery was not yet fully institutionalized.
At the time, most forced laborers on the plantations were predominately white indentured servants. Some historians have suggested that the at-the-time unprecedented laws banning interracial marriage were originally invented by planters as a divide and rule tactic after the uprising of servants in Bacon's Rebellion.
According to this theory, the ban on interracial marriage was issued to split up the racially mixed, increasingly mixed-race labour force into whites, who were given their freedom, and blacks, who were later treated as slaves rather than as indentured servants. By forbidding interracial marriage, it became possible to keep these two new groups separated and prevent a new rebellion.
S States, by the date of repeal of anti-miscegenation laws: No laws passed to 12 June In , there was considerable controversy in Arizona when an Asian-Indian farmer B. Singh married the sixteen-year-old daughter of one of his white tenants. However, during slavery many white American men and women did conceive children with black partners. These children automatically became slaves if the mother was a slave or were born free if the mother was free, as slavery was matrilineal.
Many children of these unions formed enclaves under names such as Colored and Gens de couleur , etc. Initially, Filipino Americans were considered "white" and were not barred from interracial marriage, with documented instances of interracial marriage of Filipino men and White women in Louisiana and Washington, D. However, by the late 19th century and early 20th century in California, Filipinos were barred from marrying white women through a series of court cases which redefined their racial interpretation under the law.
The Motion Picture Production Code of , also known as Hays Code , explicitly stated that the depiction of "miscegenation This definition of blackness was encoded in the anti-miscegenation laws of various U. The plaintiffs in Loving v. Virginia , Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving became the historically most prominent interracial couple in the US through their legal struggle against this act.
Robert De Niro and his wife Grace Hightower. Census data showed , black wife—white husband couples in When Native Americans invaded the European colony of Jamestown, Virginia in , they killed the Europeans but took the African slaves as captives, gradually integrating them.
Interracial relationships occurred between African Americans and members of other tribes along coastal states. During the transitional period of Africans becoming the primary race enslaved, Native Americans were sometimes enslaved with them. Africans and Native Americans worked together, some even intermarried and had mixed children. The relationship between Africans and Native-Americans was seen as a threat to Europeans and European-Americans, who actively tried to divide Native-Americans and Africans and put them against each other.
At the same time, the early slave population in America was disproportionately male. Records show that some Native American women bought African men as slaves. Unknown to European sellers, the women freed and married the men into their tribe.
Some African men chose Native American women as their partners because their children would be free, as the child's status followed that of the mother. The men could marry into some of the matrilineal tribes and be accepted, as their children were still considered to belong to the mother's people. As European expansion increased in the Southeast, African and Native American marriages became more numerous.
These two counties had the highest rates of interracial marriages involving at least one black spouse in the United States. The vast majority of these marriages involved black men marrying ethnic Mexican women or first generation Tejanas Texas-born women of Mexican descent.
Since ethnic Mexicans were considered white by Texas officials and the U. Yet, there is no evidence that anyone in South Texas was prosecuted for violating this law. The rates of this interracial marriage dynamic can be traced back to when black men moved into the Lower Rio Grande Valley after the Civil War ended.
They married into ethnic Mexican families and joined other black people who found sanctuary on the U. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese men in the U. S, mostly of Cantonese origin from Taishan migrated to the United States. Anti-miscegenation laws in many states prohibited Chinese men from marrying white women. After the Emancipation Proclamation, many Chinese Americans migrated to the Southern states, particularly Arkansas, to work on plantations.
In , based on Liang research, of the , men in more than 20 Chinese communities in the United States, he estimated that one out of every twenty Chinese men Cantonese was married to a white woman. After the war, similar charges were used by white segregationists against advocates of equal rights for African Americans. They were said to be secretly plotting the destruction of the white race through miscegenation. In the s, segregationists alleged a Communist plot funded by the Soviet Union with that goal.
In , segregationists cite the anti-semitic hoax A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century as evidence for these claims. Bob Jones University banned interracial dating until Sharp decision in Tiger Woods refers to his ethnic make-up as "Cablinasian" Caucasian, black, Indian and Asian to describe the racial mixture he inherited from his Thai mother and African-American father.
Most theologians read these verses and references as forbidding interreligious marriage, rather than interracial marriage. Nevertheless, as late as , a Louisiana justice of the peace refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple, justifying the decision on grounds of concern for any children the couple might have.
Most Asiatic-Hawaiians men also married Hawaiians and European women and vice versa. On the census some Chinese with little native blood would be classified as Chinese, not as Asiatic-Hawaiians due to dilution of native blood. Intermarriage started to decline in the s. For two years ending 30 June , 38 of these children were born; they were classified as pure Chinese because their fathers were Chinese.
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