Essays on Miscegenation

For Nella Larsen’s Crane being a product of interracial sex is not an easy one as she spends the novel searching for the place she belongs. In the end Larsen’s protagonist is disappointed as she comes to realize that there is no place for her in the world because she is not one race but a mix of two (Larsen 1969). This negative outlook is just one example of the attitudes Americans adapted towards miscegenation and interracial sex for while there were those like Larsen who saw those who were born from parents of two different races ...

Abstract

The paper explores the history of interracial marriages within the United States, from both a legal and sociological perspective. The aim is to identify the reason why intermingling between races was illegal and considered a crime until the 1960s, in a country where Abolition and racial discrimination had been brought to an end a century ago. The one-drop-rule governs the status of how people descending from parents who belong to different races are seen in the eyes of the law and dates to a 1662 law in Virginia . The controversy surrounding the law stems from the fact that children ...

“One Hundred Years of Solitude” (Cien Añosde Soledad) is a magical realist novel created by Gabriel García Márquez in 1967. This novel is referred to as the Don Quixote of Latin America because of its overwhelming popularity (Jay Corwin, 4). The novel does not have any clear and obvious philosophy that is why the perception of this novel is very individualistic. The tragic and mystique ending pushes to the idea that multiple aspects of life that are described in the novel are heavily criticized by García Márquez (Jay Corwin, 4). And one of these ...

At the period of casting and producing of The Birth of a Nation, the American film producers, film industry, and public was struggling with the representation of the white male masculinity, miscegenation, and racism. These events occurred in the wake of Jack Johnson (a colored man) defeat of a series of white men and a former champion, Jim Jeffries in an open boxing fight. The white population that constituted a large percentage of film consumers was finding it hard to come to terms with Johnson’s superiority in the ring while at the same time hopelessly beating their champion. Jim Jeffry represented the white ...