Interracial

Interracial

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.

*The Commission on Interracial Cooperation was an organization in the southern United States in the early 20th century.


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  • interracial — interracial, iale, iaux [ ɛ̃tɛrrasjal, jo ] adj. • 1935; de inter et racial ♦ Didact. Qui se produit entre des personnes de races différentes. Mariage interracial. ⇒ mixte. ● interracial, interraciale, interraciaux adjectif Qui se produit entre… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • interracial — interracial. adj. Que está integrado por individuos de razas distintas o que se produce entre ellos. Tropas interraciales. Problemas interraciales …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • interracial — (adj.) also inter racial, 1883, from INTER (Cf. inter ) + RACIAL (Cf. racial) …   Etymology dictionary

  • interracial — adj. Que está integrado por individuos de razas distintas o que se produce entre ellos. Tropas interraciales. [m6]Problemas interraciales …   Diccionario de la lengua española

  • interracial — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ existing between or involving different races. DERIVATIVES interracially adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • interracial — [in΄tər rā′shəl] adj. between, among, or involving members of different races: also interrace …   English World dictionary

  • Interracial — Pornographie interraciale Interracial terme anglophone employé dans la pornographie pour montrer le mélange de race dans les films. Dessin de Thomas Rowlandson (1756 1827) Ce terme peut être considéré comme rétrograde et raciste puisqu ils… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • interracial — integrated integrated adj. 1. Formed or united into a whole. Syn: incorporate, incorporated, merged, unified. [WordNet 1.5] 2. Formed into a whole or introduced into another entity; as, an integrated Europe. Opposite of {nonintegrated}. [Narrower …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • interracial — interracially, adv. /in teuhr ray sheuhl/, adj. of, involving, or for members of different races: interracial amity. [1885 90; INTER + RACIAL] * * * …   Universalium

  • interracial — adjective Including two or more different races. Interracial marriages are getting more common these days thanks to globalization …   Wiktionary

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