Interracial

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Interracial is an adjective related to racial group. It can have different connotations in different contexts:

  • Interracial adoption means placing a child of one racial group or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial group or ethnic group.
  • Interracial marriage is marriage between two people of differing racial groups.
  • Interracial pornography is pornography depicting sexual activity between performers of different racial groups or ethnic groups.
  • Miscegenation is a term used to describe the mixing of different racial groups. It refers to marrying, cohabiting, having sexual relations or procreating with a partner from outside of one's racially or ethnically defined social group.
  • Multiracial (similar to biracial or mixed-racial group) is an adjective describing people who are not easily classified into a single racial group.
  • The word "interracial" may be used in reference to the mixing of people of different racial groups that results from racial integration or desegregation.