| The text, in its subversion of racial and cultural purity, posits miscegenation and hybridity as potentially positive, even liberating, forces. |
| Most whites in America have some black blood due to miscegenation during the slavery era and hence are legally black themselves. |
| In his opinion, miscegenation, illegitimacy, and racial impurity had no place in the construction of a pure and legitimate national race. |
| Where large groups of different races mix in all phases of daily contact, race mixing or miscegenation is inevitable. |
| The taboo against miscegenation underpinned many of these negative colonial representations. |
| Effectively, what both novels are really about is the cultural threat of miscegenation as the in-between. |
