mulattoismn.
/mjuːˈlatəʊɪz(ə)m/, /mjᵿˈlatəʊɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /m(j)ʊˈlɑdoʊˌɪz(ə)m/ Reproduction between white and non-white people, resulting in the birth of mixed-race children. In later use also: the racial, social, and cultural mix resulting from such interracial reproduction; multiculturalism.Now likely to be considered offensive (see note at mulatto n. 1).
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mulattoism1844
1844 A. Stewart Writings & Speeches on Slavery (1860) 286 Had the doctrine of the common law been followed, slavery, from its mulattoism, a significancy of the times, would have been in its last quarter.
1868 E. A. Pollard Lost Cause Regained 122 There is an ultimate and absolute barrier beyond which ‘mulattoism’ cannot exist.
1974 Jrnl. Southern Hist. 40 39 [To tolerate miscegenation] is to threaten Louisiana with mulattoism and the social equality of the races.
1993 Callaloo 16 704 While the formulation of cultural mulatto-ism seems a great innovation, Ellis is too unclear about the ends such a form is to achieve.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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