Self-Hate & Interracial Dating
News outlets report Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s deputies say year-old James Descant holds “disdain” for mixed couples. Deputies say the black man and white woman were standing outside a business in Metairie when Descant swerved to hit them. The man managed to jump out of the way but his girlfriend was struck by Descant’s car, suffering injuries to her hip, wrist and foot.
The analysis reveals that much of the Black self-hatred literature fails to stand of the preferences of students of different races of actors in interracial theatre.
Opposition to miscegenation, thereby preserving their race’s purity and nature, is a typical theme of racial supremacist movements. Though the notion that racial mixing is undesirable has arisen at different points in history, it gained particular prominence in Europe during the era of colonialism. Although the term “miscegenation” was formed from the Latin miscere “to mix” plus genus “race” or “kind”, and it could therefore be perceived as value-neutral, it is almost always a pejorative term used by people who believe in white racial superiority and purity.
In Spanish America, the term mestizaje , which is derived from mestizo —the blending of European whites and Indigenous peoples of the Americas , is used to refer to racial mixing. In the present day, the word miscegenation is avoided by many scholars, because the term suggests that race is a concrete biological phenomenon, rather than a categorization imposed on certain relationships.
The term’s historical use in contexts that typically implied disapproval is also a reason why more unambiguously neutral terms such as interracial , interethnic or cross-cultural are more common in contemporary usage. These words, much older than the term miscegenation , are derived from the Late Latin mixticius for “mixed”, which is also the root of the Spanish word mestizo. These non-English terms for “race-mixing” are not considered as offensive as “miscegenation”, although they have historically been tied to the caste system casta that was established during the colonial era in Spanish-speaking Latin America.
Today, the mixes among races and ethnicities are diverse, so it is considered preferable to use the term “mixed-race” or simply “mixed” mezcla. In Portuguese-speaking Latin America i. Intermarriage occurred significantly from the very first settlements, with their descendants achieving high rank in government and society. Conversely, people classified in censuses as black, brown “pardo” or indigenous have disadvantaged social indicators in comparison to the white population.
The concept of miscegenation is tied to concepts of racial difference.