“Not only did laws against miscegenation limit the personal and civil freedom of white men but these same laws also often served to encourage interracial couples to maintain a sexual relationship outside of marriage.”

“The text, in its subversion of racial and cultural purity, posits miscegenation and hybridity as potentially positive, even liberating, forces.”

“In his opinion, miscegenation, illegitimacy, and racial impurity had no place in the construction of a pure and legitimate national race.”