Michelle Wallace, author of the essay “Boyz in the Hood and Jungle Fever,” defines the term “jungle fever” as a “condition in which blacks and whites (Asians, Native Americans, and Latinos appear to be both immune to the disease and irrelevant to the narration) become intimately involved because of their curiosity about their racial difference (perish the thought) rather than for love” (Wallace 126). This is the basis of Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever (1991), which focuses …showed first 75 words of 3092 total…

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