Race mixing is outlawed in The Bible
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In Deuteronomy 20, God tells the Israelites that if they come into conflict with people not on His extermination list, they can make them vassals, or capture their women etc. alive if they choose to fight against Israel - but God reiterates that they must completely exterminate everyone and everything in the accursed nations.
In Deuteronomy 21, God outlines how a man can take a wife of women captured in war. Logically, these captured women aren't Israelites, so they are guaranteed to have been raised to believe in gods other than the Lord - but God says it's 100% OK to take a wife from them, and 100% forbidden to take a wife from the accursed nations.
You typically see this explained as being about idols (not race), but we see many of the patriarchs take wives of distant relatives who are pagans. Jacob's wife Rachel even stole her father's idols, implying she had some active belief in the protection or status associated with those idols - but God didn't merely permit these pagan wives, He actively blesses them and their descendants.
This explains how it was 100% OK for the Israelites to take wives from acceptable pagan nations they'd come into conflict with, but 100% forbidden to take women
of any accursed race. Having the accursed "convert" or be made acceptable to God was never even an option.
Today, marrying a White who is not a Christian is not advised because of the complications of differing belief (2 Corinthians 6 etc.), but you are not sinning - the unbelieving spouse is sanctified by your belief (1 Corinthians 7:14).