Interracial Sexuality

The occupy The produce of A Nation, produced in 1915, is well known for both its pertly and inventive ways of filming and its extremely racist views. One of the legion(predicate) topics covered by the icon was the idea of interracial sex activity. Interracial sex was not spoken of much in the time period of the movie, so it was considered to be particularly risque. The movie itself portrayed the subject as the causa of downfall for many a neat man, and also the result of also sexual black men attempting to rape innocent white women (Griffith 1915).The movie portrayed a romance about interracial grammatical gender in the scenes involving Flora, a young white woman, and Gus, a black Captain in the US Army (Griffith 1915). Gus is looking for a wife, and he assumes that Flora go forth want to marry him despite their different races (Griffith 1915). It turns into only a fantasy for him, because she will not think of marrying him. She runs up a steep slump to get away from hi m, only to fall to her death (Griffith 1915).One may accept that she thought he would rape her, and so she fell, or perhaps jumped, to overturn the shame of an interracial sexual encounter. Anxiety over interracial sexuality appears when another young white woman, Elsie, is almost forced into an interracial uniting by Silas Lynch, a mulatto man (Griffith 1915). He is determined to marry a white woman, and Elsie is the one that he wants (Griffith 1915). His kidnapping and near marriage to her demonstrates the fears that white people had about sexual black men coming to parcel out their women away.In general, The Birth of A Nation fed off of the feelings of the United States at the time of its release. It was released only fifty years after the Civil War, and tensions were extraordinarily high between white people and the freed black people. Interracial sexuality was a great fear for those who wanted the races to stay separate and unequal, and that is why the topic played a large part in The Birth of A Nation. Works Cited Griffith, D. W. The Birth of A Nation. 1915.