anti-miscegenation

adjective

an·​ti-mis·​ce·​ge·​na·​tion

ˌan-tē-(ˌ)mi-ˌse-jə-ˈnā-shən,

-ˌmi-si-jə-ˈnā-,

ˌan-tī- 

variants or antimiscegenation

: opposing or prohibiting miscegenation

In many states anti-miscegenation laws made it a crime for two people of different races to have a relationship or engage in intimate activities.

—Sue Leeman

Examples of anti-miscegenation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Brown's mother, Jane, a white woman, and her father, Jerry, a Black man, first spotted each other in a library at Clemson University, going to school at a time and in a culture that was still shaped by anti-miscegenation laws despite their overruling in the U.S. in 1967. —Fran Tirado, Them, 3 Oct. 2024

By Tracy Slater / Made by History June 12, 2024 8:00 AM EDT June 12 marks the 57th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, deeming that state’s anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional and affording mixed-race marriages legal protection across the nation. —Tracy Slater / Made By History, TIME, 12 June 2024

Both houses served white men, but Missouri’s anti-miscegenation laws only allowed Black men to seek companionship at the bordello where Black escorts worked. —Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023

The government also used the legislation as an anti-miscegenation measure, targeting women who married men of other nationalities. —Hardeep Dhillon, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023

The hosts have covered tasty topics like the history of Ketchup and Vietnamese food and serious ones like the impact of anti-miscegenation laws on AAPI communities. —Minhae Shim Roth, Good Housekeeping, 24 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1870, in the meaning defined above