Interracial is an adjective related to racial group. It can have different connotations in different contexts:
- Interracial adoption
Interracial adoption refers to the act of placing a child of one racial or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial or ethnic group.-Statistics:...
means placing a child of one racial group or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial group or ethnic group.
- Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage occurs when two people of differing racial groups marry, often creating multiracial children. This is a form of exogamy and can be seen in the broader context of miscegenation .-Legality of interracial marriage:In the Western world certain...
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
Miscegenation is the mixing of different racial groups, that is, marrying, cohabiting, having sexual relations and having children with a partner from outside one's racially or ethnically defined group....
is a usually-derogatory term used to describe the mixing of different racial groups.
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Interracial is an adjective related to racial group. It can have different connotations in different contexts:
- Interracial adoption
Interracial adoption refers to the act of placing a child of one racial or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial or ethnic group.-Statistics:...
means placing a child of one racial group or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another racial group or ethnic group.
- Interracial marriage
Interracial marriage occurs when two people of differing racial groups marry, often creating multiracial children. This is a form of exogamy and can be seen in the broader context of miscegenation .-Legality of interracial marriage:In the Western world certain...
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
Miscegenation is the mixing of different racial groups, that is, marrying, cohabiting, having sexual relations and having children with a partner from outside one's racially or ethnically defined group....
is a usually-derogatory 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
The terms multiracial and mixed-race describe people whose ancestries come from multiple races.-Definitions of multiraciality:While defining race is controversial and rejected by some specialists in human genetics,...
(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
Racial integration, or simply integration includes desegregation . In addition to desegregation, integration includes goals such as leveling barriers to association, creating equal opportunity regardless of race, and the development of a culture that draws on diverse traditions, rather than merely...
or desegregationDesegregation is the process of ending racial segregation, most commonly used in reference to the United States. Desegregation was long a focus of the American Civil Rights Movement, both before and after the United States Supreme Court's decision in Brown v...
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- The Commission on Interracial Cooperation
The Commission on Interracial Cooperation was formed in the U.S. South in 1919 in the aftermath of violent race riots that occurred the previous year in several southern cities. The organization worked to oppose lynching, mob violence, and peonage and to educate white southerners concerning the...
was an organisation in the southern United States in the early 20th century.