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#"A mixture or hybridization: There was musical miscegenation at a time when segregation was the common rule".

#"A mixture or hybridization: There was musical miscegenation at a time when segregation was the common rule".

== Word Origin ==

== Word origin ==

The term miscegenation was coined in a 1863 [[propaganda]] [[pamphlet]] titled ''Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro''. The pamphlet was ostensibly by an [[Abolitionist]] who was in favor of "miscegenation" and the complete blending of the races, claiming it was the goal of the [[Republican Party]] to make the [[American]] race the finest on earth by "engrafting upon our stock the negro element". However, later in 1864 it was revealed that the pamphlet was a [[hoax]] written by two men named George Wakeman and [[David Croly|David Goodman Croly]] working for the [[Democratic Party]]. They hoped to bring ridicule upon the Republicans, the [[Lincoln]] administration, and the [[Conservative]] Abolitionist movement in general by playing on the irrational fears and bigotry of their fellow racists.<ref>[http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Miscegenation_Hoax/ "Miscegenation Hoax"], Museum of Hoaxes.</ref>

The term miscegenation was coined in a 1863 [[propaganda]] pamphlet titled ''Miscegenation: The Theory of the Blending of the Races, Applied to the American White Man and Negro''. The pamphlet was ostensibly by an [[Abolitionist]] who was in favor of "miscegenation" and the complete blending of the races, claiming it was the goal of the [[Republican Party]] to make the [[American]] race the finest on earth by "engrafting upon our stock the negro element". However, later in 1864 it was revealed that the pamphlet was a [[hoax]] written by two men named George Wakeman and [[David Croly|David Goodman Croly]] working for the [[Democratic Party]]. They hoped to bring ridicule upon the Republicans, the [[Lincoln]] administration, and the [[Conservative]] Abolitionist movement in general by playing on the irrational fears and bigotry of their fellow racists.<ref>[http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Miscegenation_Hoax/ "Miscegenation Hoax"], Museum of Hoaxes.</ref>

== Christian Perspectives ==

== Christian perspectives ==

In the Book of Ruth, Ruth was a [[Moab]]ite whom God had forbidden the Israelites to make marriage with.  Ruth however accepted the God of Israel as her God and Boaz as her kinsman-redeemer, whom she married. Ruth went on to be [[King David]]'s great-grandmother, and [[Jesus]] was born of the [[House of David]].  The Book of Ruth teaches that God loves all people, and by Ruth is the [[salvation]] that is in Christ available to the [[gentile]]s, who now can be adopted into God's family.

In the Book of Ruth, Ruth was a [[Moab]]ite whom God had forbidden the Israelites to make marriage with.  Ruth however accepted the God of Israel as her God and Boaz as her kinsman-redeemer, whom she married. Ruth went on to be [[King David]]'s great-grandmother, and [[Jesus]] was born of the [[House of David]].  The Book of Ruth teaches that God loves all people, and by Ruth is the [[salvation]] that is in Christ available to the [[gentile]]s, who now can be adopted into God's family.