Whereas by an
intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws: in a word, soon become one people."
"The
intermixture of States with States naturally results in a blending of characters of every kind, as strangers import among strangers innovations." Strangers are most welcomed, unless they bring in innovations in the city: magistrates "shall have a care lest any such strangers introduce any innovation." (Laws XII)
Foulk described the Koreans he encountered as "tall and well formed [and] their hair varied in color from black to light reddish brown, suggesting, with the varying obliquity of the eyes, sometimes straight like those of Europeans, the
intermixture of Caucasian and Mongolian races." He concluded that "in general their personal appearance and manner were more likely to command the respect of foreigners than that of either the Japanese or Chinese in their original conditions."
(41) "So pervasive was the derogation of such contacts that racial
intermixture virtually equated with racial contamination." (42) Thus, for blacks in the North, like their brothers and sisters in the South, their race and color became indelible and damning badges of inferiority.
This belief that racial mixing could proliferate constitutes a profound shift in racial concepts; however, it might also be considered something of a return to early modern notions concerning racial
intermixture. George Best's 1584 encounter with a dark-skinned, mixed race child of an English woman and an "Ethiopian" spurs a notion of unending propagation instead of sterility.
would, tho' earnestly wished by me, be attended with such insuperable difficulties on account of their
intermixture by Marriages with the dower Negroes, as to excite the most painful sensations, if not disagreeable consequences from the latter George solved the problem in his will by giving Martha 123 of his 124 slaves, with the proviso that they be freed upon her death, thus (advertently or inadvertently, we do not know) putting a price on her head.
Nor is their gaze completely knowing; their pain remains "half-wakened" and later "vague," neither full of thought nor emotion but a complex
intermixture of the two (11.
The tendency of intimate social
intermixture is to amalgamation,
They are slightly visible and not entirely understood in the synthetic
intermixture of the letter of the law and the spirit of the law.
The judgment is characteristic of Eliot's
intermixture of political, theological, and aesthetic distinctions.
Tan's energetic
intermixture of texts does the good work of unsettling the parameters of the literary archive along with those of national citizenship.
In Zaira, the past's 'embedded-ness' in the present in the form of a composite temporal
intermixture is metaphorically represented through the former's delineation as "lines of a hand" (Cities 9), the hand clearly signifying the eternal present:
Anderson and Dionne-Krosnick divided this
intermixture of aesthetic works and objects of use into broad categories, such as "Borders," "Shelter," and "Camp-Cities." Each category was accompanied by wall text which provided art historical and contextual justification of the decision to link art and utilitarian objects under the umbrella term.
Historically, Puerto Rico's colonial relationship with the United States and its history of
intermixture of native, African, and Spanish inhabitants has prompted inconsistent narratives about race and power in the colonial territory.
Racially, they include the hush-hush
intermixture of white and black that have characterized this country from the introduction of slavery onward to the separation of the races in the Jim Crow days and beyond.
