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Interracial pornography is pornography that depicts sexual activity between performers of different races or ethnic groups.

Initially, the term referred specifically to pornography involving performers of African and European descent. Today, it is often used to refer to any performance involving actors of different races or ethnicities, although it is most commonly used in its original sense.

Although interracial pornography has always been a genre of pornography, it began growing in visibility during the 1980s. Its popularity grew during the 1990s, and in the 2000s it become a prominent aspect of pornography. In the United States, interracial pornography frequently depict performers using racial stereotypes.

In the past, some of porn's leading white ladies allegedly were warned by racist producers to avoid African-Americans, both on-screen and in their personal lives. One rationale was the wide-spread belief that appearing in interracial pornography would ruin a white performer's career, although some observers have said that there is no evidence that this is true. Adult Video News critic Sheldon Ranz wrote in 1977 that "we keep hearing a lot about 'the powers that be' that tell white women that it's not in their 'interest' to work with blacks. Is there any proof that Ginger [Lynn]'s scene with Tony El-Lay in Undressed Rehearsal hurt her career? Nina Hartley still gets lots of bookings in Southern strip clubs, especially Texas, even though she is an avowed interracialist." (read more . . . )