What's the difference between miscegenation and miscegeny?

Miscegenation


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  • (n.) A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.

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  • (1) Type 7-2 (3-1-1-1-1-2), most common in Negroid populations, is found at a higher frequency in the San (20.4%) than the Nama (6.5%), suggesting that miscegenation involving Negroid females and San males is more common than that between Negroid females and Nama men.
  • (2) There were high rates of miscegenation (forced and voluntary); slaves and servants raised white children and often lived in close quarters with their owners.
  • (3) What this actually means in practice is a strange mechanical ensemble projected on to a wall, where the rose windows are regularly pumped with blood (donated by local Catholics), a macabre vision of miscegenation seeping into the citadel of imperial power.
  • (4) Unlike in America, “ miscegenation ” played an integral role in Brazilian nation-building.
  • (5) Photograph: Sophia Evans The television made by Bazalgette and Curtis could hardly, on the surface, be more different, and yet their work, each in its own way, is the product of a superlatively televisual miscegenation.
  • (6) The central figure is legendary producer Rick Hall, a dyed-in-the-wool Alabama good ol' boy who, in a place where everything was segregated except the airwaves, played unwitting midwife to a dream of transracial cooperation and cultural miscegenation, and built up at FAME Studios a house band that played on more hits than any comparable outfit of the period – or any since.

Miscegeny


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