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. Adult Video News critic Sheldon Ranz wrote in 1997 that:
One rationale was the purportedly widespread 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. In the past, some of American pornography's white actresses were allegedly warned to avoid African American males, both on-screen and in their personal lives. īehind the Green Door (1972) was one of the first pornographic films to feature sex between a white actress ( Marilyn Chambers) and a black actor ( Johnnie Keyes). American stag films dated to the 1930s depict acts between black and white performers: Di Lauro and Rabin point to The Handy Man, The Hypnotist, and A Stiff Game, the last of which identifies its only male character as 'Sambo'. Interracial pornography features performers of differing racial and ethnic backgrounds and often employs ethnic and racial stereotypes in its depiction of performers. Interracial pornography in the United States 1 Interracial pornography in the United States.