http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=508022
from which -
This article also examines the real-life similarities between couples whose marriages break race taboos and couples whose marriages break gender taboos. Even recently, when mixed-race marriage has been legal for over three decades, many mixed-race couples encounter problems that should persuade skeptics that the analogy between same-sex love and mixed-race love is not just a glib legal argument. The sexualization of mixed-race couples served the same end it does for gay couples today, including making the deprivation of marriage rights seem fair.
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Pr0n provides us with a metric of the continuing sexualization of 'inter-racial' couplings in the public mind.
One of the popular themes of pr0n, particularly on the Internet, is the idea of innocent-in-appearance, usually very small white women coupled with large, very dark and, by the visual standards of our culture, threatening-in-appearance black men.
The sub-text of these pr0n storylines is that white women who're sexually involved with such men are especially 'wild' and some sort of deep perversity is on display.
Pr0n is a widely consumed product; its popularity is not limited to special-interest sub-cultures so the persistence of this 'taboo' theme suggests the endurance of sexualized racialist notions about 'mixed-race' relationships in the minds of a large percentage of the population.
DRM