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![]() ![]() ![]() The word first appeared in Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro, a hoax anti-abolitionist pamphlet David Goodman Croly and others published anonymously in advance of the 1864 presidential election in the United States. ![]() The word, now usually considered pejorative, is derived from a combination of the Latin terms miscere ('to mix') and genus ('race' or 'kind'). Miscegenation ( / m ɪ ˌ s ɛ dʒ ə ˈ n eɪ ʃ ən/ miss- EJ-ə- NAY-shən) is marriage or admixture between people who are considered to be members of different races.
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