“The Birth of the Black Rapist: The ‘Brutal Black Buck’ in American Culture” in Evil in American Pop Culture. ed. Sharon Packer. ABC-CLIO, 2014.
In the spring of 1915 D.W. Griffith’s landmark film The Birth of a Nation exploded onto American screens and argued frame after frame that the idealized white woman under assault by a sexually lusting black man was the biggest threat to the nation.