it is racist to take a word, and apply to it any specific racial mixture, because the word doesn't do that.
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'''Miscegenation''' is the mixture of races, usually through marriage, cohabitation, or sexual relations between a white person and a person of another race.
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'''Miscegenation''' is defined by the ''American Heritage Dictionary'' as: 1) "The interbreeding of different races or of persons of different racial backgrounds." 2) "Cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races." and 3) "A mixture or hybridization: There was musical miscegenation at a time when segregation was the common rule".
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== Famous Miscegenational Marriages ==
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*[[Clarence Thomas]] and [[Virginia Lamp Thomas]] (Supreme Court Justice)
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*[[Othello|Othello and Desdemona]] (characters in a [[William Shakespeare|Shakespearian]] play.)