词汇 | miscegenation |
词源 | miscegenation. This term is not often heard anymore. It re- fers to marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races. The term derives from the Latin words for “to mix” and “race” and is said to have been coined in a pamphlet entitled Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro, published anonymously by New York journalist David Goodman Croly (1829–1889) in 1863. |
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