Interracial Intimacy is a multicultural relationship that can beyond sex, it can be friendship and can be the closeness between interracial families. Interracial intimacy started during colonization, and became more prevalent during slavery. Interracial intimacy during slavery involved rape for the pleasure and profit, it was a patristic arrangement. This trauma carries over into the interracial dating today.  

Interracial intimacy is not always a pleasant experience, this is evident from the actions of colonization and slavery. Even today boundaries are crossed during interracial relations. In relationships between white and black prejudices and biases still fuel fears and inform our sexual, marital, and family choices. Laws during the 1900s prevented the marriage and dating between white and black people. Government policing in interracial dating isn’t as prevalent as before, but even now race mixing is being regulated. In his book Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption Randall Kennedy speaks on how the injustices of the slave era fuel present-day battles over race matching adoption policies, which seek to pair children with adults of the same race. This kind of calculated thinking is harmful black men and women because it furthers a racist mindset because of the fetishization to mix races and have a mixed baby. White people, men in particular because of their racist ancestry develop an obsession with black skin, and black stereotypes, seeking out black women for their voluptuous bodies and natural hair. White women also perpetuate these racist tendencies when they seek black men for their “sexual advantages” or dating black men to anger their family members who would not approve. Even in an interracial friendship racism exist, the white friend that wants to have black friends because they’re “hip and cool” and say nigga because they have black friends, so they feel it’s justified. The boundaries of curiosity also must be established in an interracial friendship, Solange expresses this perfectly in her song “Don’t Touch My Hair.”  The questions about black hair become harmful when hands get involved, this is a problem in interracial friendships because of white people feel entitled to touch and play with black hair like dolls. This racist antic does not only fall on white people, other races practice this curiosity move.