miscegenation

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• /mɪˌsɛd͡ʒ.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
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Blend of Latin miscēre (“mix”) + Latin genus (“race”) + -ation. Coined by American journalist David Goodman Croly in 1864 and first used in an anonymous pamphlet he coauthored, which claimed to be written by a person who believed in the inherent unity of all racial groups, that marriage between blacks and whites would create a better race, and that the American Civil War was a fight for the latter idea. Later, it was exposed that the pretext of the pamphlet was false and that it had actually been written by a group which hoped to inflame anger, particularly against then-US President Abraham Lincoln who was up for reelection. Replaced previous amalgamation, from metallurgy.

17 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: تَمَازُج الأَجْنَاسِ (tamāzuj al-ʔajnāsi) — the mixing or blending of race
• Bulgarian: кръстосване на раси (krǎstosvane na rasi) — the mixing or blending of race
• Chinese Mandarin: 種族混合 /种族混合 (zhǒngzú hùnhé) — the mixing or blending of race
• Dutch: rassenvermening — the mixing or blending of race
• Dutch: verbastering — the mixing or blending of race
• Finnish: rodunsekoitus — the mixing or blending of race
• French: métissage — the mixing or blending of race
• Icelandic: kynþáttablöndun — the mixing or blending of race
• Italian: miscegenazione — the mixing or blending of race
• Italian: mescolanza etnica — the mixing or blending of race
• Norwegian: raseblanding — the mixing or blending of race
• Portuguese: miscigenação — the mixing or blending of race
• Russian: смеше́ние n рас (smešénije) — the mixing or blending of race
• Russian: метиса́ция (metisácija) — the mixing or blending of race
• Spanish: mestizaje — the mixing or blending of race
• Swedish: rasblandning — the mixing or blending of race
• Tamil: இடையினத் திருமணம் (iṭaiyiṉat tirumaṇam) — the mixing or blending of race