Research Miscegenation and Interracial Sex in America

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Miscegenation and interracial sex in America
Miscegenation refers to the blending of racial groups through marriage, proliferation and sex. Miscegenation has been fought for decades in America. Interracial sex was instigated with the dawn of slave trade in the 16th century with the whites in total charge. Eroticisation of race differences gained momentum in the 16th century when a white man was convicted to a whipping, for defiling himself by lying with a non-white. The distinction was also inclusive of the Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Hawaiians and Mexicans (Pierce 279).
The fight for racial justice in America was characterized by miscegenation laws and the civil rights organizations response.
Miscegenation laws proscribed interracial sex and marriage across America
This term was embraced with such alacrity and was politicized for years between the democrats and republicans. After the civil war, over thirty American states criminalized miscegenation making it impossible for interracial couples to get married. Momentarily, different states came up with anti-Chinese, anti-Hawaiians, anti-Japanese movements, to forbid any union with their white women. Such a union would only happen in states where the legislation was repealed. (Pierce 280). This went on beyond gender and propriety. The laws only protected white womanhood, white race purity, and the presumed white men`s private property, consequently preventing a widowed coloured female from inheriting property from her deceased white husband. Men from the other races were seen as sexual predators and property predators. The authority`s decision on a union, was influenced by what the term race meant to them. They alleged that race was rooted into physical character, shape, language, morality and social psychology. The more the people immigrated in to America, the more the authority tighte...