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

• Interracial adoption means placing a child of one race or ethnic group with adoptive parents of another race or ethnic group.
• Interracial friendships are friendships between people of different races.
• Interracial marriage is marriage between two people of differing races.
• Interracial pornography is pornography depicting sexual activity between performers of different races or ethnic groups.
• Miscegenation is a term used to describe the mixing of different races. 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-race) is an adjective describing people who are not easily classified into a single race.
• The word "interracial" may be used in reference to the mixing of people of different races 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.