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An anti-miscegenation law was enacted by the Nazi government in September 1935 as a part of the Nuremberg Laws. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour ('Gesetz zum Schutze des deutschen Blutes und der deutschen Ehre'), enacted on 15 September 1935, forbade sexual relations and marriages between Germans classified as so ...
The Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance, 2020 (Hindi: उत्तर प्रदेश धर्म विधि विरुद्ध धर्म संपरिवर्तन प्रतिषेध अध्यादेश, romanized: Uttara Pradēśa Vidhi Virudha Dharma Saṁparivartana Pratiśēdha Adhyādēśa, 2020), referred to as the Love Jihad ...
All anti-miscegenation laws banned marriage between whites and non-white groups, primarily black people, but often also Native Americans and Asian Americans. [5] In many states, anti-miscegenation laws also criminalized cohabitation and sex between whites and non-whites.
Miscegenation (/ m ɪ ˌ s ɛ dʒ ə ˈ n eɪ ʃ ən / mih-SEJ-ə-NAY-shən) is a marriage or admixture between people who are members of different races or ethnicities. [1] It has occurred many times throughout history, in many places.
McLaughlin v. Florida, 379 U.S. 184 (1964), was a case in which the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a cohabitation law of Florida, part of the state's anti-miscegenation laws, was unconstitutional. [1] The law prohibited habitual cohabitation by two unmarried people of opposite sex, if one was black and the other was white.
Anti-miscegenation laws have played a large role in defining racial identity and enforcing the racial hierarchy. The United States has many ethnic and racial groups, and interracial marriage is fairly common among most of them. Interracial marriages increased from 2% of married couples in 1970 to 7% in 2005 [30] [31] and 8.4% in 2010. [32]
Virginia (1967) that held that anti-miscegenation laws were unconstitutional via the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868. [1] [2] Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in the court opinion that "the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual, and cannot be infringed by the State."
Enacted three miscegenation laws between 1809 and 1913, and a 1952 statute that required adoption petitions to state the race of both the petitioner and child. A 1913 miscegenation law broadened the list of races unacceptable as marriage partners for whites to include persons belonging to the "African, Korean, Malayan, or Mongolian race."