In An American Dilemma (1975), Gunner Myrdal states that miscegenation  
policy developed because intermarriage was a principal concern in the white  man’s 
order of discrimination, followed by intercourse involving white women,  use 
of public facilities, political franchise, legal equality, and employment.  
Similarly, Joel Kovel contends in White Racism: A Psychohistory (1970)  that 
sexuality is at the core of racism and, subsequently, miscegenation laws.  On the 
other hand, Oliver Cox asserts in his Caste, Class, and Race  (1959) that 
economic exploitation, rather than a loathing of interracial sex,  was the real 
basis for miscegenation prohibitions. Cox further argues that  miscegenation 
laws also refused blacks the opportunity to attain the cultural  status of 
whites. White colonists also were fearful of an alliance between  African Americans 
and American Indians and the strength in numbers that such a  union of 
oppressed peoples could produce.



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