( August 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Ĭoncepts of race and sexuality have interacted in various ways in different historical contexts.
While partially based on physical similarities within groups, race is understood by scientists to be a social construct rather than a biological reality. Human sexuality involves biological, erotic, physical, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. The ways in which people perceive the relationship between these two concepts implicitly informs attitudes toward interracial sexual relationships and sexual preferences for particular races expressed by individuals. 1.1 United States before Civil Rights EraĪttitudes towards interracial relationships United States before Civil Rights Era Īfter the abolition of slavery in 1865, white Americans showed an increasing fear of racial mixture.1 Attitudes towards interracial relationships.Racial bias may involve a sexual dimension, which often takes the form of racial fetishism.
