Interracial Relationships Sex and Marriage

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In the modern world today, there are still people that are bigots who view interracial relationships and marriage as undesirable. However, the view is contentious given that the law that allows interracial relationships and marriages was enacted in 1960. Before then, it was prohibited and against the law to have a relationship with someone from a different race let alone getting married to them. Basing this context from the film Jungle Fever that tries to describe a non-healthy relationship between races, we learn how people viewed and perceived these relationships. The main culprits of this film are flipper and Angie. Flipper is an affluent and successful architect who is currently married, while Angie is a new secretary at her workplace. Flipper is an African American, while Angie is an Italian American.
Initially, it all starts casually when Angie comes to do some paperwork in Flipper’s office. Chemistry builds up and within no time they find themselves having sex on every corner of his workplace, including the office table. The behavior goes on for some time without anyone noticing. They become more intimate and eventually love and adore each other. Angie later leaves her longtime boyfriend for Flipper. Their relationship is full of trials, opposition, and even threats. Angie tells her friends about it, and they become furious. She later tells them not to tell anyone. On the other hand, Flipper tells his friend Cyrus about his infidelity and his new found love.
However, Cyrus tries to show Flipper that the relationship he is getting into is neither right nor acceptable. He promises to keep it a secret. Unfortunately, he tells his wife who spreads the rumor and the relationship finally becomes public. At one instance, Angie ...

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...he good and bad sides that come with interracial marriages. Interracial relationships and marriages will not seize, and bigots will not stop bigotry. For that reason, it is vital to look at this issue from the positive side rather than being selfish in terms of our perspective.

Works Cited

Lee, Spike. Jungle Fever. Universal City, CA: Universal Home Video, 1998. DVD.
O’Nearn, Claudine Chiawei. Half and Half. Knopf: Doubleday Publishing Group. 1998. Pp.80- 95.
Rockquemore, Kerry A.. "Navigating Interracial Borders: Black-White Couples and Their Social Worlds. Erica Chito Childs." Journal of Marriage and Family 68, no. 2 (2006): 534-535.
Watson, Elwood, D. “Interracial Couples and Marriage More Accepted Among Americans,” The Huffington Post, Accessed at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elwood-d- watson/interracial-couples-and-m_b_4663479.html on February 9, 2014.

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