Filmmaker Spike Lee used the term to describe relationships motivated by "sexual curiosity" and the "myth of the racial Other". Spike Lee’s " Jungle Fever " (1991)
Dedicated to Yusuf Hawkins —a Black teenager murdered by a white mob in 1989—the film focuses on the fallout of an extramarital affair between Flipper (Wesley Snipes), a Black architect, and Angie (Annabella Sciorra), an Italian-American temp worker. Jungle Fever
It typically refers to an "insane" or irrational sexual attraction to someone of a different race, often based on media-driven myths and stereotypes rather than genuine connection. Filmmaker Spike Lee used the term to describe
Historically, "Jungle Fever" was used to describe actual tropical diseases, but in a social context, it became a derogatory slang term. a Black architect