What Might Be a Reason for the Term Miscegenation Being

question 54

Multiple Choice

What might be a reason for the term miscegenation being a demeaning word?

• A) Racist thinking demands adherence to a strict social standard that hinges entirely on correctness of skin color,so intermarriage would violate this social norm.
• B) Racist thinking often conflates human beings with nonhuman animals,so intermarriage might mean marriage to nonhuman species.
• C) Racist thinking structures a society around a particular kind of social order with whites and nonwhites kept physically separate,so intermarriage would allow physical mixing.
• D) Racist thinking organizes social boundaries along the lines of descent,thus intermarriage would confuse ancestral lineage and paternity.

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