Race, Class, Jungle Fever, and The Criminal Justice System: Examining The Fall of Jonathan Majors

In 1991, incomparable filmmaker, actor, and director Spike Lee 66, released the iconic urban romantic drama Jungle Fever (1991). The film centered on an interracial extramarital dalliance of an upper-middle-class Black architect, Flipper Purify (Wesley Snipes), and a working-class Italian-American temp-worker, Angela “Angie” Tucci (Annabella Sciorra), while intimating that the affair was due to their concupiscence of time-resistant racialized belief of Black male sexual prowess and white female sexual purity. This belief is juxtaposed to a 1990s society uncomfortable with sexual frolicking between Black men and white women, as Purify and Tucci faced a cornucopia of verbal, physical, and psychological assaults from family, friends, and police, who were perplexed and chagrined by their perceived racially ersatz mate. <a href="https://medium.com/@bakarilumumbainc/race-class-jungle-fever-and-the-criminal-justice-system-examining-the-fall-of-jonathan-majors-22a4f9f63424">Learn More</a>