Anti-miscegenation laws were a part of American law since before the United States was established and remained so until ruled unconstitutional in 1967 by the U.S Supreme Cort in Loving v.Virginia . The term miscegenation was the American Civil War, by American journalists to discredit the abolitionist movement by stirring up debate over the prospect of interracial marriage after the abolition of slavery. In those of the original Thirteen Colonies that became states and enacted such laws, they were enacted as state law in the early 18th century; a century or more after the.complete racialism of slavery.
So, repetition is used in poems to show emphasis on a particular point. For your groupwork project you could possibly write a poem or a song and add repeated words to show you understand how to use repetition and when to use it.
Answer:
The poet has used the word 'masquerade' in the poem which means 'to pretend to be someone else. ' The speaker in the poem is trying to say that though they hide their true identity because of their color but they don't like to pretend to be someone else